Vision to Action: Achieving Health Equity in Indian Country

描述（由申请人提供）：本次会议实现了NIH的整体使命，以改善美国印第安人和阿拉斯加原住民（AIAN）的健康和消除健康差距，通过促进创新的合作和伙伴关系，在国家，地区和当地部落，部落学院和部落财团。会议将制定具体计划，以合作和提高健康差异研究的能力，并增加科学劳动力中的AIAN。具体目标是：（1）让部落和土著社区伙伴和研究人员参与规划和确定研究机会，以改善基于行为和社会的负面健康状况;（2）通过一系列关于土著和西方研究方法、政策、进程和办法的最新进展的讲习班讨论/培训，建设健康差距研究能力;（3）创建、汇编和传播伙伴关系工具和措施。这次会议的前提是，一个文化上适合的对话将有助于AIAN利益攸关方确定最紧迫的健康差距， 这些问题包括土著印第安人部落和社区参与健康研究的方式、与研究伙伴沟通和合作的最有价值的方式以及土著印第安人部落和社区参与健康研究的方式。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This conference fulfills the NIH's overall mission to improve American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) health and eliminate health disparities by fostering innovative collaborations and partnerships across national, regional, and local tribes, tribal colleges, and tribal consortia. The conference will result in concrete plans to collaborate n and increase capacity for health disparities research and to increase AIAN in the scientific workforce. The specific aims are to: (1) Engage tribal and native community partners and researchers in planning and identification of research opportunities to ameliorate behaviorally- and socially-based negative health conditions; (2) Build capacity in health disparities research through a series of workshop discussions/trainings about the latest advances in indigenous and Western research methods, policies, processes, and approaches; (3) Create, compile and disseminate partnership tools and measures. This conference's premise is that a culturally tailored dialogue will aid AIAN stakeholders in identifying the most pressing health disparities in their communities, the most valuable ways of communicating and working together with research partners, and the ways in which AIAN tribes and communities want to be involved in health research.