We propose to develop a P20 Research Center to address Hispanic health disparities by mentoring a newgeneration of health researchers through education, research, and research training. The Center will becommitted to translatiing and disseminating findings and lessons learned to providers, policy makers andcommunity partners.The Center will comprise four cores: 1) Administrative, 2) Research, 3) ResearchTraining and Education, and 4) Community Engagement and Dissemination. The proposed HHDRC willtake advantage of the individual and collective momentum generated in and through ongoing collaborativerelationships between the University of Texas at El Paso, School of Nursing and College of Health Sciencesand University of Texas at Houston Health Science Center - School of Public Health. These relationshipsfoster sustainable mechanisms for scholarship development in Hispanic American health disparities. TheHHDRC will be guided by a conceptual framework that makes explicit the variables that influence Hispanichealth disparities in our Border communities. Research based upon this framework will seek mechanisms toreduce Hispanic American health disparities. The HHDRC will integrate the two full studies submitted withthis application, as well as new pilot studies in years 3-5 of the grant. We bring to this new opportunity theskill sets, multi-disciplinary personnel, and institutional infrastructure facilitated by the initial NCMHD funding,particularly the establishment of the Hispanic Health Disparities Research Center.
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