Community Core

尽管有大量证据表明少数群体和其他边缘化群体存在健康差距，但真正的挑战摆在面前--制定、实施和维持有效的战略，消除这些不同群体以及往往资源匮乏的环境中的健康和社会差距。社区参与研究代表了一种变革性的研究方法，在学者和社区(提供者、其他卫生保健专业人员、政策制定者和社区成员和组织)之间建立必要的桥梁，将科学转化为多层次的实践，影响个人健康行为、组织和实践系统、社区和文化规范、政策，并最终改善人口健康公平和健康状况。因此，这个社区参与核心(CEC)旨在建立伙伴关系，致力于研究健康差距，在UNM调查人员和遭受差距的美洲原住民和西班牙裔社区居民之间建立伙伴关系。 其具体目标是：1)在学术研究人员和社区支持者(临床医生/提供者、政策制定者和社区成员和组织)之间建立多方向的可信伙伴关系，以根据新墨西哥州土著和拉美裔社区的优先事项，相互确定不断演变的差异研究议程；2)促进新墨西哥州大学研究人员对社区参与的障碍和促进者的反思和组织评估，并制定行动战略和最佳做法，以加强社区信任和大学-社区伙伴关系；3)通过一批“跨文化健康差距学者”和暑期共同学习机构发展共同学习和指导机会，其目的是：促进跨文化对话、对CBPR方法的理解和能力建设，以便将土著文化知识和实践与经验支持的理论和干预措施联系起来；以及4)翻译和共同传播研究结果 我们的社区合作伙伴制定实践、计划和政策干预措施，以减少健康差距和改善健康公平。CEC的具体目标建立在致力于以社区为基础的参与性研究、接纳土著世界观并重建社区对研究的信任的跨文化和去殖民化研究方法、以及支持翻译干预措施，以解决中心概念模型的多层次风险和保护因素，使用经验有效和以文化为中心的战略来减少差异。

Though much evidence exists of health disparities within minority and other marginalized populations, the real challenge lies ahead¿to develop, implement, and sustain effective strategies to eliminate health and social disparities within these diverse populations, and within often resource-poor settings. Community engaged research represents a transformative research approach to create necessary bridges between academics and communities (providers, other health care professionals, policy makers and community members and organizations) to translate science into multilevel practices that influence individual health behaviors, organizations and practice systems, community and cultural norms, policies, and, ultimately, improved population health equity and health status. This Community Engagement Core (CEC) therefore aims to build partnerships dedicated to research on health disparities, between UNM investigators and community residents in Native American and Hispanic communities suffering disparities. The specific aims are to: 1) create multi-directional authentic partnerships between academic researchers and community constituencies (clinicians/providers, policy makers and community members and organizations) to mutually identify a continually evolving disparities research agenda based on the priorities of Native and Hispanic communities in New Mexico; 2) promote UNM researcher reflection and organizational assessment of barriers and facilitators to community engagement and to develop action strategies and best practices for enhancing community trust and university-community partnerships; 3) develop co-learning and mentoring opportunities through a cohort of "intercultural health disparity scholars" and summer co-learning institutes aimed at: facilitating cross-cultural dialogue, understanding of CBPR methodologies, and capacity-building to bridge indigenous cultural knowledge and practices with empirically supported theories and interventions; and 4) translate and co-disseminate findings with our community partners to enact practice, program, and policy interventions in order to reduce health disparities and improve health equity. The CEC specific aims are built on a commitment to community based participatory research, intercultural and decolonizing research methodologies that embrace indigenous world views and rebuild community trust in research; and on supporting translational interventions that address the multi-level risk and protective factors of the Center conceptual model using empirically-effective and culturally-centered strategies to reduce disparities.