International Conference on Health in the African Diaspora (ICHAD)

海外非洲人健康国际会议 (ICHAD)

• 批准号: 8319124
• 负责人: Thomas Alexis LaVeist
• 金额: $ 2万
• 依托单位: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-07-03 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8319124
• 关键词: Address; African; African American; American; Americas; Area; Baltimore; Books; Brazil; Canada; Caribbean region; Colombia; Communication; Community Workers; Country; County; Employee Strikes; Foundations; Funding; Future; Goals; Grant; Health; Health Status; Healthcare; Honduras; International; Intervention; Investigation; Knowledge; Language; Life; Maryland; Parents; Population; Publishing; Race; Recording of previous events; Research; Research Personnel; Services; Slave; Social status; Solutions; Staging; Translations; United States; United States National Institutes of Health; Variant; Work; black subgroup; cost; experience; forging; health disparity; meetings; migration; multidisciplinary; response; social; symposium; web site

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is in response to PA-10-071 - NIH Support for Conference and Scientific Meetings (Parent R13/U13). We are seeking grant funding under the R13 mechanism to convene a conference titled "International Conference on Health in the African Diaspora of the Americas (ICHAD)." The ICHAD conference will be held July 4-8, 2012 in Baltimore, MD. The goal of the conference is to provide an international platform for scholars to exchange knowledge about solutions to major health challenges, including health disparities, facing black populations in the Western Hemisphere. We have received grant support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, which covers most of the conference costs. We are now seeking support from NIMHD to cover language translation services to facilitate access to Spanish-speaking and Portuguese-speaking attendees. Between the 1600s and the 1800s, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade gave rise to a large African Diaspora throughout the Americas and the Caribbean. Today there are approximately 60 million African descendants living in the Western Hemisphere. They share a common history of forced migration and subjugation, but the different cultural and historical contexts of the countries in which they have settled have forged divergent social and cultural experiences. There is only limited understanding of what these commonalities and differences have produced in terms of health and social status. Some countries - such as the United States, Canada and Brazil - have produced a significant volume of research documenting striking race disparities. However, in other counties - such as Honduras and Colombia - research on race disparities is in the early stages. With support from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, staff of the NIMHD-funded Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions (HCHDS) has been working to identify researchers throughout the Western Hemisphere who are conducting research on health disparities among African descent populations. We now propose to convene these colleagues to share research findings and solutions to health disparities among African descent populations of the Americans. The proposed conference will support the following aims: 1. To explore and describe the health status of the African descent populations of the Western Hemisphere; 2. To identify differences and commonalities in how "race" is conceptualized throughout the region and describe how the different conceptualizations of "race" influence how we understand health and health disparities in black populations; 3. To identify differences and commonalities in the social and historical experiences of black populations in the region and describe how these differences contribute to variations in health status and health care among black subgroups; 4. To describe the phenomenon of racial disparities in health in the Western Hemisphere and identify possible causes for these disparities and potential areas for intervention; 5. To identify areas of promising research and intervention which can inform future research on health disparities in the U.S. and elsewhere; and 6. To establish an ongoing, multidisciplinary network of scholars to undertake future investigations of black health status in the region.

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请是对 PA-10-071 - NIH 对会议和科学会议的支持（父级 R13/U13）的回应。我们正在 R13 机制下寻求拨款，以召开一次题为“美洲非洲裔侨民健康问题国际会议 (ICHAD)”的会议。 ICHAD 会议将于 2012 年 7 月 4 日至 8 日在马里兰州巴尔的摩举行。会议的目标是为学者提供一个国际平台，以交流有关解决西半球黑人面临的重大健康挑战（包括健康差异）的知识。我们获得了 W.K. 的赠款支持。凯洛格基金会承担了大部分会议费用。我们现在正在寻求 NIMHD 的支持，以提供语言翻译服务，以方便西班牙语和葡萄牙语与会者的访问。 1600 年代至 1800 年代之间，跨大西洋奴隶贸易在美洲和加勒比海地区产生了大量的非洲侨民。如今，大约有 6000 万非洲人后裔生活在西半球。他们有着共同的被迫移民和征服的历史，但他们所在国家的文化和历史背景却不同。 定居者形成了不同的社会和文化经历。人们对这些共性和差异在健康和社会地位方面产生的影响了解有限。美国、加拿大和巴西等一些国家已经开展了大量研究，记录了显着的种族差异。然而，在洪都拉斯和哥伦比亚等其他国家，对种族差异的研究还处于早期阶段。在 W.K. 凯洛格基金会的支持下，NIMHD 资助的霍普金斯健康差异解决方案中心 (HCHDS) 的工作人员一直在努力寻找西半球各地正在研究非洲裔人群健康差异的研究人员。我们现在提议召集这些同事分享研究成果和解决美国非洲裔人口健康差异的解决方案。拟议的会议将支持以下目标： 1. 探讨和描述西半球非洲人后裔的健康状况； 2. 找出整个地区“种族”概念化的差异和共性，并描述“种族”的不同概念化如何影响我们对黑人群体健康和健康差异的理解； 3. 查明该地区黑人群体的社会和历史经历的差异和共性，并描述这些差异如何导致黑人亚群体健康状况和医疗保健的差异； 4. 描述西半球健康方面的种族差异现象，并确定这些差异的可能原因和潜在的干预领域； 5. 确定有前景的研究和干预领域，为美国和其他地方的健康差异的未来研究提供信息； 6. 建立一个持续的、多学科的学者网络，以对该地区的黑人健康状况进行未来的调查。