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

描述（由申请人提供）： 少数族裔机构的 18 个研究中心 (RCMI) 通过国家研究资源中心 (NCRR) 资助，与 Meetings Plus Inc. 合作，提高生物医学和行为科学领域的研究能力并加强研究环境，寻求会议拨款，以支持 2004 年、2006 年和 2008 年两年一度的国际健康差异研讨会。该提案的目标是提高研究技能、科学专业知识，并促进RCMI 机构的研究人员和学生通过计划在五年内举办的一系列科学演讲和合作培训研讨会进行合作。具体而言，我们计划为 2004 年 12 月在巴尔的摩举行的第九届 RCMI 健康差异国际研讨会、2006 年 12 月在波多黎各圣胡安举行的第十届 RCMI 健康差异国际研讨会以及 2008 年 12 月在夏威夷檀香山举行的第十一届 RCMI 健康差异国际研讨会的规划、制定和实施寻求资金支持。寻求差旅费、会议费用、会议广告、在这些会议和研讨会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，以及在受审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，因为它们汇集了生物医学和行为科学领域的少数族裔研究人员，参与影响健康差异的科学对话，并为少数族裔研究人员和学生提供了与其他 RCMI 机构的研究人员以及国内外科学家互动的机会。 因此，通过实现这项 U13 合作协议的目的和目标，RCMI 社区将能够更好地为美国人的健康和福祉服务，从而完成这项由 NIH/NCRR 赞助/RCMI 项目非常成功的国会授权和使命。

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.