The overall goal of the Administrative Core of the proposed UPR-CHA Research Center of Excellence:Making a Difference for Latino Health (UPR-CHA RCE) is to maintain and enhance the admininstrativenfrastructure developed for the currently funded UPR-CHA EXPORT Center. This Admininstrative Corewill continue to be responsible for the planning, coordination, integration, evaluation, and dissemination ofmulti-site, multidisciplinary research, training, and community outreach activities that address reduction orelimination of service disparities in the health and health care delivery of Latino communities. TheAdministrative Core provides the programmatic, administrative and fiscal oversight for the Center, and allowsus to integrate academia, service, training and community settings to develop appropriate models of care forthe target population. This core benefits from the substantial and succesful administrative experience withmulti-site and multidisciplinary projects of the UPR and CHA with partners sites such as John HopkinsUniversity and Harvard Medical School, among others.
The aims of the UPR-CHA RCE Administrative Coreare to:
Aim 1 : Continue the current administrative structure that successfully supports a synergistic core ofresearchers who bring together resources, leadership, and expertise from the mainlandUnited States (US) and the island of Puerto Rico (PR) to plan and coordinate activities, andprovide the resources and management for research and training activities under a unifiedcenter (UPR-CHA RCE).
Aim 2 : Coordinate and prioritize tasks to continue to successfully implement research and trainingactivities and projects across multiple sites and community settings as well as promote thedevelopment and management of pilot studies.
Aim 3 : Enhance collaborations with our community partners in order to conduct research studies andintegrate innovative interventions designed to impact disparities fully in these community andclinical settings.
Aim 4 : Disseminate the work and findings of the UPR-CHA RCE to provide information andintervention models that may serve to eliminate the health burden and health servicedisparities in Latino communities in the US.
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