The Bi-annual RCMI Int'l Symposia on Health Disparities

描述（由申请人提供）： 少数民族机构的18个研究中心（RCMI）通过国家研究资源中心（NCRR）提供资金，以提高研究能力，加强与会议加公司合作协议的生物医学和行为科学的研究环境，寻求会议赠款资金，以支持2004年、2006年和2008年两年一度的健康差距国际研讨会。该提案的目标是提高研究技能，科学专业知识，并通过计划在五年内举办的一系列科学演示和合作培训研讨会促进RCMI机构的研究人员和学生的合作。具体而言，我们计划寻求资金支持，以规划、制定和执行将于2004年12月在巴尔的摩举行的第九次国际区域医学合作区域委员会健康差距专题讨论会、2006年12月在波多黎各圣胡安举行的第十次国际区域医学合作区域委员会健康差距专题讨论会以及2008年12月在夏威夷檀香山举行的第十一次国际区域医学合作区域委员会健康差距专题讨论会。我们的目标是寻求对差旅、会议费用、会议广告、将在这些会议和讲习班上担任全体发言人的著名科学家和诺贝尔奖获得者的酬金以及在经评审的期刊上发表科学手稿的支持。我们认为，这些会议和研讨会是独一无二的，因为它们汇集了来自生物医学和行为科学的少数民族调查人员，参与影响健康差异的科学对话，并为少数民族调查人员和学生提供机会，与其他RCMI机构的调查人员和科学家进行互动，国内和国际。 因此，通过实现U13合作协议的目标，RCMI社区将能够更好地为美国人的健康和福祉服务，从而完成国会的授权和这个非常成功的NIH/NCRR赞助/RCMI计划的使命。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The 18 Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) funded through the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) to enhance the research capabilities and strengthen the research environment in the biomedical and behavioral sciences in cooperative agreement with Meetings Plus Inc., seeks conference grant funding to support the biennial International Symposium on Health Disparities in years 2004, 2006 and 2008. The goal of this proposal is to enhance the research skills, scientific expertise, and facilitate collaborations of investigators and students at RCMI institutions through a series of scientific presentations and collaborative training workshops planned over a five-year period. Specifically, we plan to seek funding support for the planning, development and implementation of the Ninth International RCMI symposium on Health Disparities to be held in Baltimore, December 2004, the Tenth International RCMI symposium on Health Disparities in San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 2006 and the Eleventh International RCMI symposium on Health Disparities in Honolulu, Hawaii, December 2008. Our goal is to seek support for travel, meeting costs, advertising of the meeting, honoraria for noted scientists and Nobel Laureates who will serve as plenary speakers at these conferences and workshops, and for the publication of scientific manuscripts in refereed journals. We believe that these conferences and workshops are unique, in that they bring together minority investigators from the biomedical and behavioral sciences to engage in scientific dialog that affects health disparities and provide opportunities for minority investigators and students to interact with investigators at other RCMI institutions and with scientists, nationally and internationally. Therefore, by fulfilling the goal and objectives of this U13 cooperative agreement, the RCMI community will be better able to serve the health and well being of Americans, and thereby accomplish the congressional mandate and mission of this highly successful NIH/NCRR-sponsored/RCMI program.