Research
Project 10-9 focuses on the development of speech enabled information access by police officers from inside, as well as outside their patrol vehicle.
The Institute on Aging (IOA) and the School of Community Health (SCH) at Portland State University (PSU) collaborates with the World Health Organization (WHO) on this “Age-Friendly Cities Project.” This is a project designed to identify specific indicators of an age-friendly city, with 27 cities from around the world. Portland is the only U.S. city involved in the project. The protocol, including research design, focus group scripts, and analysis to be conducted, is prescribed by the WHO.
Using high resolution elevation data obtained via airborne laser instrumentation to map geohazards.
This application for a P20 planning grant is submitted by the University of Puerto Rico – Río PIedras campus, a minority serving institution and the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, a NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center. A subcontract to Portland State University to Dr. Carlos Crespo, Director of the School of Community Health is described below to assist achieve the major goals of this partnership. The general goal is to develop a collaborative association between the two institutions to increase the number of minority scientists engaged in cancer research. The specific aims of this planning grant are: 1) To develop joint research projects in the areas of cancer epidemiology, prevention, and control in areas of diet, exercise, tobacco and the environment and 2) To support the development of a multidisciplinary team-oriented program to train pre-doctoral and post-doctoral candidates to pursue careers in basic and applied cancer research. We intend to expand the current cancer research training and career development opportunities by increasing the interaction between minority scientists and established investigators through seminar, workshops, retreats, and formation of inter-institutional research teams. Two pilot projects will examine the role of diet on breast cancer in Puerto Rican women, and the relationship of dietary fat with prostate cancer in a cohort of Puerto Rican men with 35 years of follow up. Additionally, we propose to fund one or two meritorious pilot research projects through the formation of research teams. These inter-institutional research teams will prepare a small research proposal and be reviewed by a panel of outside advisors with NIH study section review experience. We envision that this type of interaction and partnership will enhance the cultural competency skills of all scientists involved in this grant. The activities planned are designed to represent true collaborations that function seamlessly across the institutional boundaries of both institutions. Under this partnership the University of Puerto Rico will gain access to and collaboration with established investigators in cancer epidemiology, and will increase the cancer research training opportunities for students and junior faculty. The Roswell Park Cancer Institute will then gain cultural competency in conducting cancer research with Hispanics that will further expand current recruitment efforts of Hispanic participants into clinical trials and population-based research, increase the admission of Hispanic students into the current training programs, and promote the development of minority scientists.
The National Center for Self-Determination and 21 st Century Leadership at the RRI of Portland State University is a partner with The Arc of the United States, Self Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE), and TheArcLink Incorporated in the continuing design and implementation of an interactive website to provide people with developmental disabilities and their families. Information on all the Medicaid programs and services for people with developmental disabilities in every state and territory of the U.S. is being included on the website ( www.thedesk.info ). In each state, the Medicaid programs and services that support people with developmental disabilities and their families are carefully researched. Straightforward translations of Medicaid terms and service definitions are recorded by self advocacy leaders in more than 1,500 video and audio clips, so that people with disabilities can use the site and get an explanation of Medicaid even if they are unable to read and do not have screen reader software on their computers.
