This proposal seeks a renewal of our previously AHRQ-funded Shaw University M-RISP Minority ElderlyResearch (SUMMER) Center. The basis of the initial AHRQ M-RISP proposal was to augment the researchinfrastructure at Shaw University, the oldest Historically Black College/University (HBCU) in the South,located in Raleigh, North Carolina. The goal of the SUMMER Center was, and will continue to be, toestablish infrastructure support to Shaw University junior-level faculty to conduct health services research onracial disparities among various minority populations by providing training, resources, and mentorshipopportunities through collaborative linkages with senior researchers at Shaw and at other universities. TheSUMMER Center combined on-going quality health services research, faculty development, and studenttraining in an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to meet the broad objectives of AHRQ M-RISP which are,in part, to help minority institutions and their faculty conduct health services research with respect to theelimination of racial health disparities and to support improvements in health outcomes, strengthen qualitymeasurement and improvement, identify strategies to improve access,foster appropriate use overall, andreduce unnecessary expenditures. The SUMMER Center also directly supported Healthy People 2010, inpart, through its focus on the elimination of racial disparities in health.Specifically, the two components of the SUMMER Center were, and will continue to be: (1) to establishinstitutional infrastructure support for research development to strengthen and enhance the capability ofShaw faculty members to undertake health services research; and (2) to support individual investigatorresearch projects focused on the elimination of health disparities which will, in turn, lead to increases inhealth knowledge and will form the basis for Shaw faculty to become more competitive inextramuralresearch.
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