People's Scientific Conference to Promote Health and Eliminate Health Disparities

描述（由申请人提供）：佛罗里达最近的健康数据显示，少数民族/种族和服务不足的人群经历了显着的健康差距。促进社区参与和赋权的努力也减少了健康差距。社区参与研究（CEnR）的原则要求研究人员和社区成员通过双向交流相互学习。在为期两年的合作与文化多样性CEnR研究人员在整个佛罗里达，2011年佛罗里达健康差异研究（FHDR）议程的基础上，包括呼吁进行此类沟通，并传播促进个人和社区健康促进的循证干预措施，以及激励和准备下一代CEnR科学家，特别是那些少数民族科学家的培训。 《人类发展报告议程》是促进健康和消除健康差距人民科学会议的推动力。这次会议的广泛的长期目标是：（a）促进对文化和语言敏感的生物医学 研究和CEnR，这将导致显著改善佛罗里达的健康和消除健康差距，以及（B）开始对话，这将导致从事这些类型研究的种族/少数民族研究人员的数量增加。本次会议的总体目标是为研究人员和外行社区之间的双向沟通提供机会，以促进健康和消除佛罗里达健康差距的循证干预措施/战略。具体来说，这次会议将：1）为文化多样性的退伍军人，新的和未来的研究人员和社区卫生工作者提供机会，介绍对促进健康和消除健康差距有影响的循证干预措施和研究; 2）确定（a）促进健康和消除健康差距的动机和障碍 参与健康研究，从事健康促进行为，坚持治疗建议，并使用可用的卫生保健资源，以及（B）提供者和研究人员的行为，分别在少数民族患者和研究参与者中培养信任和减少焦虑; 3）为文化多样性的健康研究人员、健康促进者、保健提供者、社区保健工作者提供机会，和社区成员相互学习和教导关于佛罗里达和全国的精神和身体健康差距;和4）为20名预/博士后，初级研究人员，和社区卫生工作者（15名来自佛罗里达，5名来自其他州）参加将作为会议一部分启动的健康差异研究员指导计划。 成果包括：为学生，初级研究人员和社区卫生工作者提供的指导计划，包括促进健康和消除种族/少数民族和服务不足社区的健康差距的模型的会议记录，以及研究人员的视频证明，表明会议参与如何影响他们进行研究的方式。 公共卫生相关性：佛罗里达的健康差距数据显示，种族/少数民族和服务不足的社区经历显着的健康差距。促进健康和消除健康差距的人民科学会议是第一次这样的会议，这些社区的成员以及不同的研究人员和卫生保健提供者聚集在一起，相互学习和教授信息，这将促进研究知情的干预措施，以促进健康和消除健康差距。会议还将启动一项指导计划，以激励和培训下一代研究人员，特别是少数民族研究人员，开展对促进健康和消除少数民族和服务不足社区的健康差距有影响的研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Recent health data for Florida show that ethnic/racial minority and underserved populations experience significant health disparities. Efforts that promote community engagement and empowerment also reduce health disparities. The principles of community engaged research (CEnR) require that researchers and community members learn from each other through bi-directional communication. Building on a two-year collaboration with culturally diverse CEnR researchers across Florida, the 2011 Florida Health Disparities Research (FHDR) Agenda includes a call for such communication and for dissemination of evidence-based interventions that foster individual and community health promotion, and training that will inspire and prepare the next generation of CEnR scientists, particularly those who are minorities. The FHDR Agenda was the impetus for The People's Scientific Conference to Promote Health and Eliminate Health Disparities. The broad, long-term objectives of this conference are to (a) promote culturally and linguistically sensitive biomedical research and CEnR that will lead to significantly improved health and elimination of health disparities in Florida and (b) begin a dialogue that will lead to an increase in the number of racial/ethnic minority researchers engaging in these types of research. The overall aim of this conference is to provide opportunities for bi-directional communication between researchers and the lay community regarding evidence-based interventions/strategies for promoting health and eliminating health disparities in Florida. Specifically, this conference will: 1) Provide opportunities for culturally diverse veteran, new, and future researchers and community health workers to present evidence-based interventions and research that have implications for promoting health and eliminating health disparities; 2) Identify (a) the motivators of and barriers to participating in health studies, engaging in health promoting behaviors, adhering to treatment recommendations, and using available health care resources, and (b) provider and researcher behaviors that foster trust and decrease anxiety among minority patients and research participants, respectively; 3) Provide opportunities for culturally diverse health researchers, health promoters, health care providers, community health workers, and community members to learn from and teach each other about mental and physical health disparities in Florida and the nation; and 4) Provide resources for 20 pre-/post-docs, junior investigators, and community health workers (15 from Florida and 5 from other states) to participate in a Health Disparities Research Fellow Mentoring Program that will be launched as part of the conference. Outcomes include: a Mentoring Program for students, junior investigators, and community health workers, a conference proceedings that includes a model for promoting health and eliminating health disparities in racial/ethnic minority and underserved communities, and video testimonials of researchers indicating how conference participation impacted the way in which they conduct their research. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The health disparities data for Florida show that racial/ethnic minority and underserved communities experience significant health disparities. The People's Scientific Conference to Promote Health and Eliminate Health Disparities is a first-of-its-kind conference in which members of these communities, and diverse researchers and health care providers come together to learn from and teach each other information that will foster research-informed interventions to promote health and eliminate health disparities. The conference will also launch a mentoring program to inspire and train the next generation of researchers, particularly minority researchers, to conduct research that has implications for promoting health and eliminating health disparities in minority and underserved communities.