Project Details
Description
The Northeastern Minority Oral Health Research Center (NMOHRC) is a
collaborative project between UMDNJ-New Jersey Dental School (NJDS) and
University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine (UCONN). The general
aims are: 1- maintain and strengthen a center to study oral health in
minorities, 2-support, mentor and advise junior minority investigators to
increase the participation of racial and ethnic minority faculty members
in research, 3- strengthen the research capacity of NJDS with a specific
emphasis on design, implementation and analysis of research on the oral
health minorities, The general focus of the research projects will be on
dental caries, oral manifestations of HIV and oral cancer, all health
problems that affect minorities more than whites. Studies will be based
upon a psychobiomedical model which incorporates psychological,
sociocultural and biomedical components and assumes that there are multi-
factorial causes of oral disease. The interrelated theme of the projects
will be a clinical/epidemiological/behavioral approach to determining the
prevalence and etiologies of these diseases in minorities. The NMOHRC
will be composed of an Administrative Services Core, a Research Design,
Data Management and Analysis Core and a Behavioral Sciences Core. Four
research projects will be conducted on the prevention of nursing caries in
very young children, oral manifestations of HIV infection in a pediatric
population, the identification of biological/ behavioral markers of oral
cancer in older age minorities, and a study of the underlying reasons why
minority subjects volunteer to participate in biomedical research at lower
rates than whites.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 9/30/95 → 7/31/01 |
Funding
- National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research: $422,311.00
ASJC
- Dental Hygiene
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