The Administrative Core (AC) led by MPIs Setoguchi and Wu, will play a central role in organizing, integrating, and managing multi-institution resources to maximize the overall productivity of our proposed Rutgers-NYU Center for Asian Health Promotion and Equity (CAHPE). This AC includes: Recognized experts and leaders in health disparity, intervention, prevention, cardiometabolic, and mental health research across Asian populations with strong records in productivity, leadership, and mentorship; 2) Significant resources through Rutgers/NYU/Hunter CUNY; 3) A well-designed team science infrastructure to support Pilot and Center Research Project investigators; 4) Strong and broad connections to practice and policy and the community, state, and national levels.
The overall goal of the Rutgers-NYU Investigator Development Core (IDC) is to support and increase the expertise of interdisciplinary scientists, including those from underrepresented backgrounds, to prepare them to conduct innovative and impactful health equity intervention, prevention, and management research on cardiometabolic and mental health outcomes among Asian Americans. Our approach has implications for understanding mechanisms of both health and wellbeing as well as changing how we ‘think about’ and how we ‘do’ research on these topics. Even more importantly, our approach will transform how we create and conduct research with these populations. Such an approach to health equity research will foster multidirectional and transdisciplinary integration of innovative research that has maximal impact on community practice and policy.
Infusing principles of Community-Partnered Participatory Research, the primary goals of the Rutgers-NYU Center for Asian Health Promotion and Equity Community Engagement Core (CEC) are to:
1) organize and nurture academic-community partnerships focusing on Asian Adults;
2) facilitate the recruitment and retention of diverse Asian adults into intervention research on cardiometabolic and mental health research;
3) and build a reciprocal and sustainable community-partnered infrastructure in order to bridge knowledge gaps and disseminate evidence-based best practices at community, state and national levels to inform practice and policy.
