Population Center Faculty Meetings

描述（由申请人提供）：女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋和变性人（LGBT）经历着系统性的健康差异。我们对LGBT健康的理解和采取措施解决LGBT健康差异的能力的增长仍然存在一个障碍，即缺乏跨学科科学家就理解性和性别少数群体（SGM）的关键问题和方法挑战进行交流和交流的机会。由芬威健康研究院芬威LGBT健康人口研究中心（中心）赞助的拟议年度LGBT人口健康研究科学会议将填补这一空白。科学会议将于每年夏天在马萨诸塞州波士顿的芬威健康会议中心举行，汇集了来自不同国家的专家和有前途的新科学家，以推进SGM人口健康研究的科学现状。每次会议将分享核心目标：1)交流关于全球人口健康最新发展的信息；2)通过中心主办的工作组，协调SGM健康领域的合作研究工作；3)探索和寻求方法上的挑战，以研究和估计SGM人口群体。为了应对该领域的持续进展，组织委员会将每年选择重点和及时的主题，由受邀演讲者和主要会议参与者在每次会议上讨论。2010年会议的重点领域包括性和性别少数群体的健康、老年性和性别少数群体的慢性病和残疾，以及男女同性恋父母家庭的儿童发展。拟议的2010年会议的形式包括邀请演讲者的科学报告，中心教师领导的工作进展报告，方法问题和解决方案的讨论，以及工作组分组会议。会议参与者将包括中心的教师、参加中心指导和培训计划的研究生学员、社区研究合作伙伴和其他研究合作者。主题科学演讲将向公众开放，并向LGBT群体做广告。后续会议的形式预计将与2010年提议的会议类似，但组委会将根据前一年的评估反馈进行调整。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people experience systemic health disparities. A remaining obstacle to growth of our understanding of LGBT health and ability to take steps to address LGBT health disparities is the lack of opportunities for interdisciplinary scientists to meet and exchange ideas about the key issues and methodological challenges in understanding sexual and gender minorities (SGM). The proposed annual Scientific Meeting in LGBT Population Health Research sponsored by The Center for Population Research in LGBT Health (the Center) at The Fenway Institute of Fenway Health will fill this gap. To be held annually in the summer at Fenway Health's Conference Center in Boston, Massachusetts, the Scientific Meeting will draw together a diverse national group of experts and promising new scientists to advance the state of the science in the study of SGM population health. Each meeting will share the core objectives to 1) exchange information about the most recent developments in SGM population health; 2) coordinate cooperative research endeavors in SGM health through Working Groups sponsored by the Center; and 3) explore and seek solutions to methodological challenges in studying and estimating SGM population groups. In response to ongoing advances in the field, an Organizing Committee will annually select focused and timely topics to be addressed at each meeting by the invited speakers and key meeting participants. Areas of focus for the 2010 meeting include the health of SGM racial minority groups, chronic conditions and disabilities in older sexual and gender minorities, and child development in families parented by lesbians and gay men. The format of the proposed 2010 meeting includes scientific presentations by invited speakers, presentations of work in progress from faculty leaders of the Center, discussions of methodological problems and solutions, and working group breakout sessions. Meeting participants will include the faculty of the Center, graduate student mentees enrolled in the Center's Mentoring and Training Program, community research partners and other research collaborators. Keynote scientific presentations will be open to the public and advertised to the LGBT community. The format for subsequent meetings is expected to be similar to the proposed 2010 meeting, but will be adjusted by the Organizing Committee in response to evaluation feedback from the previous year. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The proposed Scientific Meeting will contribute to an understanding of the behavioral and social science aspects of human development. The Meeting will complement activities at Fenway Community Health funded by a Population Research Infrastructure Program award from NICHD (R21HD051178). Knowledge generated through the exchange of information at Scientific Meetings will assist minority individuals and communities to aspire to and attain healthy lives.