Why We Cant Wait: Conference to Eliminate Health Disparities in Genomics

描述(由申请者提供)：健康差距使美国医疗保健系统中的许多种族和少数族裔边缘化。尽管美国的整体健康状况稳步改善，但这些服务不足的群体中的个人仍然更容易受到护理失误的影响，并面临更大的健康问题风险。健康差距对美国拉美裔/拉丁裔和黑人的整体健康产生了特别深远的影响。基因进步带来了极大的希望，但也有可能进一步扩大健康差距。为了促进公平地传播基因组医学的益处，必须在不同的人群中进行基因组和翻译研究。不幸的是，在包括基因研究在内的大多数研究中，少数群体的代表性都很低。这种代表性不足的负面影响已经在目前的一些基因组医学应用中看到了。此外，医疗保健模式的转变也可能加剧健康差距。补救健康差距会议旨在了解、确定和讨论解决基因组医学健康差距的许多挑战和可能的解决方案。会议将更加重视拉美裔/西班牙裔和黑人社区特有的问题，使本来没有机会互动的更广泛的利益攸关方聚集在一起，并将包括自2008年以来出现的数据，特别是关于排序提出的独特问题的数据。我们还计划将我们讨论小组的结果与NIH健康差距机构提出的现有倡议和政策结合起来，并发布论坛的结果，使无法参加会议的研究人员和卫生专业人员能够广泛获得论坛结果。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Health disparities marginalize many racial and ethnic minorities within the American health care system. Despite steady improvement in the overall health of the United States, individuals within these underserved groups continue to be more vulnerable to lapses in care and are at increased risk for health problems. Health disparities have had an especially profound effect on the overall health of Hispanics/Latinos and Blacks in the United States. Genetic advances hold extreme promise, but also the potential to further increase health disparities. To promote equitable dissemination of the benefits of genomic medicine, genomic and translational research must be performed in diverse populations. Unfortunately, minority populations are underrepresented in most research, including genetic research. The negative effects of this underrepresentation can already be seen in some of the current applications of genomic medicine. In addition, the paradigm shift in healthcare may also fuel health disparities. The Conference to Remedy Health Disparities aims to learn, identify, and discuss many of the challenges and possible solutions for addressing health disparities in genomic medicine. The conference will place greater emphasis on issues specific to the Latino/Hispanic and Black communities will bring together a wider range of stakeholders who would not otherwise have the opportunity to interact and will include data that has emerged since 2008, specifically with regard to the unique issues raised by sequencing. We also plan to tie in the results of our discussion groups with extant initiatives and policies set forth by NIH health disparity agencies and publish the results of the forum to make it widely available to researchers and health professionals unable to attend the conference.