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会议和科学会议支持（家长R13/U13）的回应。我们正在R13机制下寻求赠款资助，以召开一次题为“美洲散居非洲人健康问题国际会议”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们提供一个国际平台，就西半球黑人人口面临的主要健康挑战（包括健康差距）的解决方案进行知识交流。我们得到了凯洛格基金会的资助，该基金会承担了会议的大部分费用。我们现在正在寻求NIMHD的支持，以提供语言翻译服务，以方便讲西班牙语和葡萄牙语的与会者。在17世纪到19世纪之间，跨大西洋奴隶贸易导致大量非洲人散居美洲和加勒比地区。今天大约有六千万非洲后裔生活在西半球。他们有着共同的被迫迁移和被征服的历史，但他们所处国家的文化和历史背景不同