Advancing Native Health and Wellness Conference

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请是为了响应计划公告PA-10-071：NIH对会议和科学会议的支持（父R13）而编写的。该申请旨在资助在阿拉斯加安克雷奇召开的独特的“有史以来第一次”全国健康会议，该会议将专门关注美国土著人民（阿拉斯加土著人，美洲印第安人和夏威夷土著人）的健康和福祉。会议计划将由夏威夷土著健康部土著和太平洋健康差异研究中心（CNPHDR）共同赞助。夏威夷大学伯恩斯医学院和美国印第安人医生协会（AAIP）。这两个以土著人为重点的组织结成了合作伙伴关系，以规划、协调和实施这次题为“促进土著人健康和福祉”的会议。这两个组织都是成熟的本地服务组织，他们共同拥有超过50年的健康会议规划经验，代表本地医生，学术学者和与土著社区，村庄和部落有密切联系的初级卫生保健提供者。会议的总体目标是提供一个创新的会议环境，促进讨论和分享科学知识，文化智慧和本土驱动的健康和健康模式，这些模式将为旨在促进美国土著人民健康和健康的卫生政策和卫生计划提供信息。为期5天半的会议将包括与本土驱动的研究，生物医学和医疗保健劳动力的多样性，社区参与和传统治疗相关的医疗保健主题，通过科学演示，培训/教师研讨会和社区小组讨论以及谈话圈子和谈话故事会议。该应用程序旨在通过以下方式完成这些目标：具体目标#1：介绍和讨论阿拉斯加原住民，美洲印第安人和夏威夷原住民之间的健康和医疗保健差异的最新科学进展。具体目标2：提供机会，提高学生/居民培训和教师发展计划的认识，旨在为美国土著人民建立多样化的生物医学研究和医疗保健劳动力。具体目标#3：分享和理解传统治疗和文化智慧的做法，以实现土著人民的整体健康。具体目标4：描述并展示在改善美国原住民的健康和福祉方面有效的文化上适当的卫生保健服务和社区计划模式的影响。因此，会议将在本土文化背景下嵌入一个强大的科学计划，将汇集代表研究科学家，学生，新兴调查人员，传统治疗师，医疗保健提供者，社区领导人和政策制定者的多元化演讲者。 公共卫生相关性：召开一次专门研究土著人健康差异的会议的科学需要既及时又填补了我们对复杂问题的理解中的空白 导致或成为过度健康负担的根本原因，如糖尿病，肥胖，癌症，心脏病和自杀，这些疾病不成比例地影响美国的土著人口。本次会议旨在探讨原住民在美国经历的一些复杂性，这些复杂性可能对他们的健康有害，以及使他们能够恢复和拥有健康和健康的因素，这些因素有可能扭转美国所有原住民的健康差距。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is written in response to the program announcement, PA-10-071: NIH Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings (Parent R13). This application seeks funding to support a unique, "first-ever" national health conference being convened in Anchorage, Alaska that will focus specifically on the health and wellness of the Native Peoples of the US (Alaska Natives, American Indians and Native Hawaiians). The conference program will be co-sponsored by the Center for Native and Pacific Health Disparities Research (CNPHDR), Department of Native Hawaiian Health, John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawaii and the Association of American Indian Physicians (AAIP). These two native-focused organizations have formed a cooperative partnership to plan, coordinate and implement this conference entitled "Advancing Native Health and Wellness". Both organizations are well established native serving organizations who collectively have more than 50+ years of health conference planning experience and who represent native physicians, academic scholars, and primary health care providers with close ties to Native communities, villages and tribes. The overall conference objective is to provide an innovative conference setting that will stimulate discussion and sharing of scientific knowledge, cultural wisdom and native-driven models of health and wellness that will inform health policy and health programs designed to promote the health and wellness of Native Peoples in the US. The 5-1/2-day conference will include health care topics related to native driven research, diversity in the biomedical and health care workforce, community engagement and traditional healing through scientific presentations, training/faculty workshops and community panel discussions as well as talking circles and talk story sessions. The application aims to complete these goals through the following: Specific aim #1: Present and discuss the latest scientific advances on health and health care disparities among Alaska Natives, American Indians, and Native Hawaiians. Specific aim #2: Provide opportunities and raise awareness of student/resident training and faculty development programs designed to build a diverse biomedical research and health care workforce for Native Peoples of the US. Specific aim #3: Share and understand the practice of traditional healing and cultural wisdom to achieve holistic health in Native Peoples. Specific aim #4: Describe and demonstrate the impact of culturally appropriate models of health care service and community programs that have been effective in improving the health and wellness of Native peoples of the US. Thus, the conference will feature a strong scientific program embedded within a native cultural context that will bring together a diverse group of speakers representing research scientists, students, emerging investigators, traditional healers, health care providers, community leaders and policy makers. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The scientific need for a conference dedicated to examining Native health disparities is both timely and fills a gap in our understanding of the complex issues that have contributed to or served as the root causes of excess health burdens such as diabetes, obesity, cancer, heart disease and suicide that disproportionately affects Native populations in the US. This conference aims to explore some of the complexities that Native People experience in the US that may be detrimental to their health as well as factors that enable resilience and ownership of their health and wellness that has the potential for reversing health disparities across all Native Peoples in the US.