Diabetes Health Disparities: Determinants, Prevention, Treatment, and Policy

描述(由申请人提供)： 糖尿病对某些种族群体的影响不成比例，如非裔美国人、拉美人和美洲原住民。造成这些不平等的原因和缩小差距的战略还没有完全被理解。有证据表明，原因是多方面的，解决办法需要针对个人、社区、卫生系统和地方、州和国家一级的公共政策的多层次干预。拟议的会议(“糖尿病健康差异：决定因素、预防、治疗和政策”)的目的是将不同观点的专家聚集在一起，努力更好地了解糖尿病差异并指导未来的研究活动。请求提供支助，以支付将于2007年11月12日至13日在田纳西州纳什维尔举行的会议的部分费用。这次会议的目标是：1)召集来自全国各地的顶尖研究人员作为演讲者，以促进思想交流，从而促成新的研究伙伴关系和对所观察到的问题的见解；b)鼓励临床、基础和社会科学的学生参加，提交海报，参与讨论，并为未来制定研究计划；以及3)吸引代表性不足的少数群体项目参与者和注册者参与这一重要的科学努力。这次会议将是一次独特的非正式和互动的结合 戈登会议的讨论特点。将作出协调一致的努力，吸引初级研究人员和那些被认为在生物医学领域代表性不足的人，如妇女和少数民族。将提供旅行奖励，以帮助这一努力。这次会议由范德比尔特大学医学中心、梅哈里医学院、梅哈里-范德比尔特联盟和范德比尔特糖尿病研究和培训中心(DRTC)组织。范德比尔特DRTC是NIH资助的五个DRTC之一，每个DRTC都有一个预防和控制核心。对于拟议的会议，范德比尔特预防/控制核心的调查人员将与美国国家卫生研究院资助的其他四个DRTC(芝加哥大学、密歇根大学、华盛顿大学、阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦)和梅哈里-范德比尔特联盟的调查人员合作，组织和规划拟议的会议。此外，大会的筹划委员会将由其他地方和 具有社会和行为科学、卫生服务研究和临床专业知识的国家科学家 糖尿病研究，包括在计划召开的会议主题和规划国家会议方面的丰富经验。会议将在科学期刊和互联网上进行宣传，并将通过电子邮件向已知在该领域活跃的成员发布公告。电子宣传将通过与Meharry和Vanderbilt链接的会议网站完成。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Diabetes disproportionately affects certain ethnic groups such as African-Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans. The reasons for these inequalities and strategies for reducing the disparities are incompletely understood. Evidence suggests that the causes are multifactorial and that solutions will require multi-level interventions that target individuals, communities, health systems, and public policy at the local, state, and national level. The objective of the proposed conference ("Diabetes Health Disparities: Determinants, Prevention, Treatment, and Policy") is to bring together experts with different perspectives in an effort to better understand disparities in diabetes and to guide future research activities. Support is requested to partially underwrite the costs of the conference to be held November 12-13, 2007, in Nashville, TN. The goals of this conference are: 1) assemble leading researchers from across the nation as speakers to stimulate an exchange of ideas leading to new research partnerships and insights into the observed problems; b) encourage students in the clinical, basic, and social sciences to attend, submit posters, take part in the discussions, and make research plans for the future; and 3) attract underrepresented minority program participants and registrants to take part in this important scientific endeavor. This meeting will be a unique blend of informality and interactive discussion characteristic of Gordon conferences. A concerted effort will be made to attract junior investigators and those considered underrepresented in biomedical fields, such as women and ethnic minorities. Travel awards will be provided to aid in this effort. The conference is being organized by Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Meharry Medical College, the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance, and the Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center (DRTC). The Vanderbilt DRTC is one of five NIH-funded DRTCs that each has a Prevention and Control Core. For the proposed conference, investigators in the Vanderbilt Prevention/Control Core will work collaboratively with investigators at the other four NIH-funded DRTCs in the country (University of Chicago, University of Michigan, Washington University, Albert Einstein), and the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance to organize and plan the proposed conference. In addition, the planning committee for the conference will consist of other local and national scientists with expertise in social and behavioral science, health services research, and clinical diabetes research, and includes considerable experience in both the subject of the planned conference and in planning national meetings. The conference will be publicized in scientific journals, on the Internet, and announcements will be emailed to members known to be active in the field. Electronic publicity will be accomplished by a Meharry and Vanderbilt-linked conference website.