Conference on Drug Use and Dependence in East Africa

东非药物使用和依赖性会议

• 批准号: 7752906
• 负责人: JAMES Christopher ANTHONY
• 金额: $ 3万
• 依托单位: MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-01 至 2010-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7752906
• 关键词: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Address; Africa; African; Area; Arts; Attention; Basic Science; Cities; Classification; Clinical; Collaborations; Country; Dependence; Development; Discipline; Drug abuse; Drug usage; Employee Strikes; Environment; Epidemiology; Fostering; Foundations; Frequencies; Funding; Future; Health; Health Services; Incidence; Information Dissemination; International; Intervention; Interview; Journals; Kenya; Life; Link; Medical; Medicine; Modeling; Multinational Perspectives; National Institute of Drug Abuse; Newspapers; Opioid; Paper; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Play; Policies; Policy Maker; Population; Population Programs; Postdoctoral Fellow; Public Health; Publications; Published Forms; Radio; Research; Research Personnel; Risk; Role; Rural; Schedule; Science; Scientist; Series; Sex Characteristics; Social Environment; Societies; Television; Tobacco; Urban Health; Urban Population; Urbanization; Woman; Work; abstracting; alcohol and other drug; community organizations; cost; improved; interdisciplinary collaboration; interest; meetings; named group; neglect; posters; prevention service; programs; public health relevance; research and development; research to practice; sex; social; symposium; urban area

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.

描述（申请人提供）：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、决策者和社区组织，交流在改善城市人口健康方面的工作进展，并促进城市健康利益攸关方在改善烟草、酒精、以及其他药物使用（特别是非法或其他非医疗药物使用）。该会议将在肯尼亚内罗毕举行，与第八届国际城市卫生会议协调举行，该会议由盖茨基金会和其他机构分别提供支助。我们建议提请注意目前NIDA的研究发展有关的烟草和其他药物参与城市环境和人口，重点是应用方面的NIDA的研究组合，努力展示潜在的国际适用的模型的研究实践合作的城市环境。因此，我们请求从会议总费用（约1，400，000美元）中拨款约30，000美元，用于支持拟议的NIDA赞助的会议轨道的以下组成部分：（1）支持由国际公认的全体发言人（例如，NIDA PI），（2）支持博士前和博士后研究实习生注册，（3）非全体平行或并行会议，重点关注NIDA相关研究，（4）海报会议，重点关注NIDA相关研究，（5）出版城市健康杂志增刊，其中包括有关NIDA相关研究的特色文章和海报摘要，由J. Anthony & D编辑。弗拉霍夫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，寻求集体提高我们对城市居民面临的共同健康风险的理解，并影响地球仪有效公共卫生干预措施的发展。来自不同国家的观点和经验教训值得分享。我们已经举行了七次会议，参加人数很多，并期待着继续这一系列会议。在以前的会议上曾提出过关于药物滥用问题的重点或会议轨道，这是这项努力的一个关键部分。这种类型的轨道旨在促进跨学科合作NIDA面向研究人员谁是感兴趣的城市环境如何影响药物的参与，包括城市环境的地理和社会结构特征，可能作为可修改的“发病率的原因”的药物问题。在会议上提出的证据将通过以下形式传播：在《城市卫生杂志》上发表摘要和论文;与电台、报纸、电视台举行新闻发布会;以及对主要发言人的新闻采访。