Filipino Cardiovascular Health Disparities Conference

描述(由申请者提供)：拟议的菲律宾裔美国人健康峰会是第一次跨学科合作努力，召集来自医疗保健、研究、社区和政策倡导部门的主要代表，分享专门针对心血管健康差距的研究结果和最佳实践，这些差距对菲律宾裔美国人(FA)社区造成了不成比例的影响。本次峰会承诺将对公共卫生领域产生持续、强大的影响，因为它旨在增加卫生服务提供者对心血管健康差距的了解，以更好地服务和治疗FA患者，促进以社区为基础的、跨不同部门合作的战略的发展，并创造系统变革，帮助改善FA的心血管健康状况。峰会的目标是：1)召集来自医疗保健、研究和社区等不同领域的主要代表和政策宣传，以促进合作，以解决影响FA的心血管健康差距问题；2)全面了解FA社区普遍存在的心血管健康差距的临床、遗传、流行病学和行为研究；3)确定影响FA心血管健康的饮食/营养、行为和社会文化决定因素；以及4)确定当前的最佳做法，并设计以预防菲律宾人心血管事件早期发病率和死亡率为重点的可行策略。为期两天的峰会将包括两天的上午全体会议，专家小组将介绍菲律宾心血管健康差距的最新发现，以及解决这些差距的创新干预措施和战略。演讲者包括研究人员、临床医生、社区倡导者和政府代表。还将征求社区组织、社区领袖、学生、教职员工和政策倡导者的海报演示文稿，介绍与菲律宾人和心血管健康相关的任何创新发现、途径和方法。下午的会议专门针对主旨演讲者和圆桌会议，以制定应对菲律宾心血管健康的战略建议(通过研究、干预或政策变化)，并与联邦机构代表和政策制定者接触。通过与联邦机构和政策制定者建立联系，参与者可以发起伙伴关系，了解这些机构提供的资源，这些资源可能有助于为FA社区服务，并提供建议，如如何从文化上为菲律宾社区量身定做材料。 公共卫生相关性：拟议中的菲律宾裔美国人健康峰会与公共卫生领域相关，因为这将是第一次聚集来自不同部门的专家，专门分享研究结果并确定改善菲律宾裔美国人社区心血管健康状况的解决方案。临床医生将被邀请对这些发现进行解释，因为它适用于他们所服务的患者，并将促进跨学科的合作，以便社区代表可以分享需要哪些干预措施或有效地到达菲律宾社区。此外，政策制定者将进一步了解心血管差异如何影响其菲律宾选民，并探索需要哪些政策变化来改善这些差异。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed Filipino American Health Summit is the first interdisciplinary collaborative effort convening key representatives from the healthcare, research, community and policy advocacy sectors to share research findings and best practices specifically addressing cardiovascular health disparities that disproportionately affect Filipino American (FA) communities. This summit promises to exert a sustained, powerful influence on the field of public health as it aims to increase health providers' knowledge of cardiovascular health disparities to better serve and treat FA patients and to foster the development of strategies that are community-based, collaborative across different sectors, and to create systems changes to help improve FAs' cardiovascular health status. The objectives of the summit are: 1) to convene key representatives from various sectors including healthcare, research and community and policy advocacy in order to facilitate collaborations to address cardiovascular health disparities affecting FAs; 2) to develop a comprehensive understanding of the current clinical, genetic, epidemiological and behavioral research on cardiovascular health disparities prevalent in FA communities; 3) to identify dietary/nutritional, behavioral and socio-cultural determinants that influence cardiovascular health among FAs; and 4) to identify current best practices and to design viable strategies focused on preventing early morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular events among Filipinos. The 2 day summit will consist of morning plenary sessions on both days which will be dedicated to panels of experts who will present recent findings on Filipino cardiovascular health disparities as well as innovative interventions and strategies to address them. Speakers include researchers, clinicians, community advocates, and governmental representatives. Poster presentations will also be solicited from community-based organizations, community leaders, students, faculty, and policy advocates to present any innovative findings, approaches, and methodologies relevant to Filipinos and cardiovascular health. The afternoon sessions are dedicated to keynote speakers and roundtables to develop recommendations of strategies to address Filipino cardiovascular health (through research, interventions, or policy changes), and engage with federal agency representatives and policy makers. Networking with federal agencies and policy makers enables participants to initiate partnerships, learn about resources these agencies provide that could be useful in serving the FA community, and provide recommendations such as how to culturally tailor materials to the Filipino community. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The proposed Filipino American Health Summit is relevant to the field of public health since it will be the first time to gather experts from various sectors to specifically share research findings and identify solutions to improve the cardiovascular health status of the Filipino American community. Clinicians will be engaged to provide interpretations of those findings as it applies to the patients they serve, and collaborations will be fostered across the disciplines so that community representatives can share which interventions are needed or effectively reach the Filipino community. Furthermore policy makers will have an increased understanding of how cardiovascular disparities impact their Filipino constituents and explore what policy changes are needed to ameliorate these disparities.