Center for Health Equity Research (CHER)

摘要 NIMHD资助的健康公平研究中心(CHER)于2017年在 伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校(UIC)，作为一个开创性和包容性的研究和 社区伙伴关系，以促进卫生公平和消除 通过解决结构性暴力来解决少数群体的暴力问题。结构性暴力，主要根源之一 健康差距的原因，指的是社会、经济和政治 这些系统使易受伤害人口面临风险，导致发病率和死亡率增加。这个 该中心位于UIC少数民族健康研究所，并汇集了 来自其他UIC单位的多学科调查员，即学院公共卫生学院 以及社区参与和邻里卫生伙伴关系办公室， 从事跨学科、多层次的研究。雪儿是由代表不足的人领导的 在健康差距和社区参与方面具有专业知识的少数群体(URM)调查人员。 自成立以来，该中心成功地加强了机构和调查人员的 有能力对结构性暴力进行健康差距研究，召集有才华的学者 包括早期调查人员(ESI)，促进了ESI的职业发展，以及学术 CHER研究人员的活动和拨款申请的提交，以及被培育的社区 参与和协作。此应用程序请求资金来支持的核心运营 中心(管理核心[AC]、调查员开发核心[IDC]和社区 参与和传播核心[CEDC])，额外(过渡)一年(第6年)，以继续 我们芝加哥地区结构性暴力中心正在进行的工作并广泛传播 过去5年的经验教训。拟议的第六年的总体目标是继续 通过深入研究健康差距的机制来推动健康差距的科学研究 结构性暴力加剧了种族/族裔和性别少数群体的健康差距 以及如何应对结构性暴力和/或其健康途径。总体的具体情况 目标是：1)加强机构和调查人员的能力，以追踪健康差距 结构性暴力研究(AC)；2)为青少年提供职业发展机会 教师、博士后实习生和新的研究人员，特别是具有URM背景(AC)的人员 和国际数据中心)；3)加强出版物的制作和结构性暴力方面的赠款申请 作为健康不平等的根本原因(IDC)；以及4)促进和加强社区 合作伙伴关系，以支持参与的学术研究以及传播和翻译 研究(CEDC)。

ABSTRACT The NIMHD-funded Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) was established in 2017 at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), as a groundbreaking and inclusive hub of research and community partnerships to advance health equity and eliminate health inequalities among minority populations by addressing structural violence. Structural violence, one of the major root causes of health disparities, refers to the multiple ways in which social, economic, and political systems expose vulnerable populations to risks leading to increased morbidity and mortality. The Center is housed in the UIC Institute for Minority Health Research, and brings together multidisciplinary investigators from additional UIC units, i.e., the School of Public Health, College of Medicine, and the Office of Community Engagement and Neighborhood-Health Partnerships, to engage in transdisciplinary and multi-level research. CHER is led by under-represented minorities (URM) investigators with expertise on health disparities and community engagement. Since its inception, the Center has successfully strengthened institutional and investigators’ capacity to pursue health disparities research on structural violence, assembled talented scholars including early-stage investigators (ESI), promoted career development of ESI, and scholarly activities and submission of grant applications by CHER investigators, and fostered community engagement and collaborations. This application requests funds to support core operations for the Center (Administrative Core [AC], Investigator Development Core [IDC], and Community Engagement and Dissemination Core [CEDC]) for an additional (bridge) year (Year 6), to continue the ongoing work of our Center on structural violence in the Chicago area and disseminate widely the lessons learned over the past 5 years. The overall goal for the proposed Year 6 is to continue to advance the science of health disparities by examining in depth the mechanisms by which structural violence contributes to health disparities in racial/ethnic and gender minority populations and how structural violence and/or its pathways to health can be addressed. The overall specific aims are to: 1) Strengthen institutional and investigator capacity to pursue health disparities research on structural violence (AC); 2) Provide career development opportunities to junior faculty, post-doctoral trainees, and new investigators, especially those of URM backgrounds (AC and IDC); 3) Enhance the production of publications and grant applications in structural violence as a root cause of health inequalities (IDC); and 4) Facilitate and strengthen community partnerships for the support of engaged scholarship and the dissemination and translation of research (CEDC).