Conference on Drug Use and Dependence in East Africa

描述(由申请者提供)：拟议的东非药物使用和依赖问题会议将聚集来自不同学科和国家的科学家、从业人员、政策制定者和社区组织，交流改善城市人口健康工作的进展，并促进城市卫生利益攸关方在改善烟草、酒精和其他药物使用(特别是非法或其他非医疗药物使用)的政策和干预方面的合作。这次会议将在肯尼亚内罗毕举行，与由盖茨基金会和其他机构单独支持的第八届国际城市卫生大会协调举行。我们建议提请注意NIDA目前与烟草和其他药物在城市环境和人口中的参与有关的研究进展，重点放在NIDA研究组合的应用方面，以努力展示可能适用于城市环境的研究与实践合作的国际模式。因此，我们要求从会议总费用中拨款约30,000美元(约1,400,000美元)，用于支持由NIDA主办的拟议会议轨道的下列组成部分：(1)在会议期间支持与国际公认的全体发言者(如NIDA个人)举行的全体会议，(2)支持博士后和博士后学员注册，(3)非全体平行或并行会议，重点关注NIDA相关研究，(4)侧重于NIDA相关研究的海报会议，(5)出版《城市健康杂志》增刊，其中将包括关于这项与NIDA相关的研究的专题文章和海报摘要，由J.Anthony和D.Vlahov编辑。通过在世界主要城市之一的内罗毕举行这次会议，我们打算促进国际研究合作，寻求集体改善我们对城市居民面临的共同健康风险的理解，并影响全球有效公共卫生干预措施的发展。来自不同国家的观点和教训可以很有价值地分享。我们现在已经举行了七次会议，出席人数很多，并期待着继续这一系列会议。关于药物滥用问题的集中会议或会议轨道已经出现在以前的会议上，这是这一努力的关键部分。这类跟踪旨在促进面向NIDA的研究人员之间的跨学科合作，这些研究人员对城市环境如何影响毒品参与感兴趣，包括城市环境的地理和社会结构特征，这些特征可能成为毒品问题的可改变的“起因”。在会议上提出的证据的传播形式将是在《城市卫生杂志》上发表摘要和论文；通过电台、报纸、电视举行新闻发布会；以及对主要演讲者的新闻采访。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed Conference on Drug Use and Dependence in East Africa will gather scientists, practitioners, policy makers and community organizations from different disciplines and countries to exchange progress on work in improving the health of urban populations and to foster cooperation among urban health stakeholders in improving policies and interventions for tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use (especially illegal or other nonmedical drug use). The conference will take place in Nairobi, Kenya in coordination with the overall Eighth International Conference on Urban Health, separately supported by the Gates Foundation and others. We propose to draw attention to current NIDA research developments in relation to tobacco and other drug involvement in urban environments and populations, with a focus upon applied aspects of NIDA's research portfolio, in an effort to showcase potentially internationally applicable models of research-to-practice collaborations for urban settings. As such, we are requesting approximately $30,000 of the total cost of the conference (~$1,400,000), which will support the following components of the proposed NIDA-sponsored conference track: (1) Support for plenary sessions with internationally recognized plenary speakers (e.g., NIDA PIs) during the conference, (2) Support for pre- and post-doctoral research trainee registration, (3) Non-plenary parallel or concurrent sessions on focused on NIDA-pertinent research, (4) Poster sessions focused on NIDA-pertinent research, (5) Publication of a supplement of the Journal of Urban Health that will include featured articles and poster abstracts on this NIDA-pertinent research, to be edited by J. Anthony & D. Vlahov. By holding this conference in Nairobi, one of the leading cities in the world, we intend to foster international research collaborations that seek a collective improvement of our understanding of the common health risks faced by urban residents and to influence the development of effective public health interventions across the globe. Perspectives and lessons from different countries can be valuable to share. We have now held seven prior conferences that have been well attended and look forward to continuing this series. A concentration or conference track on drug abuse has been present in earlier meetings and is a critical part of this effort. This type of track seeks to foster interdisciplinary collaborations among NIDA-oriented researchers who are interested in how urban settings influence drug involvement, including geographic and social structural features of urban settings that may serve as modifiable 'causes of incidence' of drug problems. Dissemination of evidence presented at the conference will come in the form of published abstracts and papers in the Journal of Urban Health; press conferences with radio, newspaper, television; and press interviews with key speakers.