Filipino Cardiovascular Health Disparities Conference

拟议的菲律宾裔美国人健康峰会是第一个跨学科的合作努力，召集来自医疗保健，研究，社区和政策倡导部门的主要代表，分享研究成果和最佳实践，专门解决不成比例地影响菲律宾裔美国人（FA）社区的心血管健康差距。本次峰会有望对公共卫生领域产生持续而强大的影响，因为它旨在增加医疗服务提供者对心血管健康差异的了解，以更好地为FA患者提供服务和治疗，并促进以社区为基础的战略的发展，跨部门合作，并创造系统变革，以帮助改善FA的心血管健康状况。 峰会的目标是：1）召集来自医疗保健，研究和社区以及政策倡导等各个部门的主要代表，以促进合作，解决影响FA的心血管健康差异; 2）全面了解当前临床，遗传学，流行病学和行为学研究对FA社区普遍存在的心血管健康差异的影响; 3）确定影响FAs心血管健康的饮食/营养，行为和社会文化决定因素;以及4）确定目前的最佳做法，并设计可行的战略，重点是预防菲律宾人心血管事件的早期发病率和死亡率。 为期2天的峰会将包括两天的上午全体会议，专家小组将介绍菲律宾心血管健康差距的最新发现以及解决这些问题的创新干预措施和战略。演讲者包括研究人员，临床医生，社区倡导者和政府代表。还将向社区组织，社区领袖，学生，教师和政策倡导者征求海报介绍，以介绍与菲律宾人和心血管健康相关的任何创新发现，方法和方法。下午的会议是专门为主旨发言人和圆桌会议，以制定战略的建议，以解决菲律宾心血管健康（通过研究，干预措施或政策变化），并与联邦机构代表和政策制定者进行接触。与联邦机构和决策者建立联系，使参与者能够建立伙伴关系，了解这些机构提供的有助于为家庭教育社区服务的资源，并提供建议，如如何在文化上使材料适合菲律宾社区。 公共卫生相关性：拟议中的菲律宾裔美国人健康峰会与公共卫生领域有关，因为这将是第一次聚集来自各个部门的专家，专门分享研究成果，并确定改善菲律宾裔美国人社区心血管健康状况的解决方案。临床医生将参与提供这些结果的解释，因为它适用于他们所服务的患者，并将促进跨学科的合作，使社区代表可以分享哪些干预措施是必要的或有效地达到菲律宾社区。此外，政策制定者将更多地了解心血管差异如何影响菲律宾选民，并探索需要哪些政策变化来改善这些差异。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed Filipino American Health Summit is the first interdisciplinary collaborative effort convening key representatives from the healthcare, research, community and policy advocacy sectors to share research findings and best practices specifically addressing cardiovascular health disparities that disproportionately affect Filipino American (FA) communities. This summit promises to exert a sustained, powerful influence on the field of public health as it aims to increase health providers' knowledge of cardiovascular health disparities to better serve and treat FA patients and to foster the development of strategies that are community-based, collaborative across different sectors, and to create systems changes to help improve FAs' cardiovascular health status. The objectives of the summit are: 1) to convene key representatives from various sectors including healthcare, research and community and policy advocacy in order to facilitate collaborations to address cardiovascular health disparities affecting FAs; 2) to develop a comprehensive understanding of the current clinical, genetic, epidemiological and behavioral research on cardiovascular health disparities prevalent in FA communities; 3) to identify dietary/nutritional, behavioral and socio-cultural determinants that influence cardiovascular health among FAs; and 4) to identify current best practices and to design viable strategies focused on preventing early morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular events among Filipinos. The 2 day summit will consist of morning plenary sessions on both days which will be dedicated to panels of experts who will present recent findings on Filipino cardiovascular health disparities as well as innovative interventions and strategies to address them. Speakers include researchers, clinicians, community advocates, and governmental representatives. Poster presentations will also be solicited from community-based organizations, community leaders, students, faculty, and policy advocates to present any innovative findings, approaches, and methodologies relevant to Filipinos and cardiovascular health. The afternoon sessions are dedicated to keynote speakers and roundtables to develop recommendations of strategies to address Filipino cardiovascular health (through research, interventions, or policy changes), and engage with federal agency representatives and policy makers. Networking with federal agencies and policy makers enables participants to initiate partnerships, learn about resources these agencies provide that could be useful in serving the FA community, and provide recommendations such as how to culturally tailor materials to the Filipino community. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The proposed Filipino American Health Summit is relevant to the field of public health since it will be the first time to gather experts from various sectors to specifically share research findings and identify solutions to improve the cardiovascular health status of the Filipino American community. Clinicians will be engaged to provide interpretations of those findings as it applies to the patients they serve, and collaborations will be fostered across the disciplines so that community representatives can share which interventions are needed or effectively reach the Filipino community. Furthermore policy makers will have an increased understanding of how cardiovascular disparities impact their Filipino constituents and explore what policy changes are needed to ameliorate these disparities.