Advancing Native Health and Wellness Conference

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请是根据项目公告PA-10-071: NIH支持会议和科学会议（家长R13）而编写的。本申请寻求资金支持在阿拉斯加安克雷奇召开的独特的“有史以来第一次”全国卫生会议，该会议将特别关注美国原住民（阿拉斯加原住民，美洲印第安人和夏威夷原住民）的健康和保健。会议计划将由土著和太平洋健康差异研究中心（CNPHDR）、夏威夷土著健康部门、夏威夷大学约翰·a·伯恩斯医学院和美国印第安医生协会（AAIP）共同主办。这两个以土著居民为重点的组织已结成合作伙伴关系，计划、协调和执行这次题为“促进土著居民健康和福祉”的会议。这两个组织都是建立良好的土著服务组织，他们总共有超过50年的卫生会议规划经验，代表土著医生、学术学者和与土著社区、村庄和部落关系密切的初级卫生保健提供者。会议的总体目标是提供一个创新的会议环境，以促进科学知识、文化智慧和土著驱动的健康和保健模式的讨论和分享，从而为旨在促进美国土著人民健康和保健的卫生政策和卫生计划提供信息。为期5天半的会议将包括与本地驱动研究相关的医疗保健主题，生物医学和医疗保健劳动力的多样性，社区参与和传统治疗，通过科学演示，培训/教师研讨会和社区小组讨论以及谈话圈和谈话故事会议。具体目标1：展示并讨论阿拉斯加原住民、美洲印第安人和夏威夷原住民之间健康和医疗保健差距的最新科学进展。具体目标2：提供机会，提高学生/住院医师培训和教师发展计划的认识，旨在为美国原住民建立多样化的生物医学研究和医疗保健队伍。具体目标3：分享和理解传统治疗和文化智慧的实践，以实现土著人民的整体健康。具体目标#4：描述和展示文化上合适的医疗服务模式和社区项目的影响，这些模式和项目有效地改善了美国土著人民的健康和福祉。因此，会议将以嵌入当地文化背景的强大科学计划为特色，将汇集代表研究科学家、学生、新兴研究者、传统治疗师、卫生保健提供者、社区领袖和政策制定者的不同群体的演讲者。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is written in response to the program announcement, PA-10-071: NIH Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings (Parent R13). This application seeks funding to support a unique, "first-ever" national health conference being convened in Anchorage, Alaska that will focus specifically on the health and wellness of the Native Peoples of the US (Alaska Natives, American Indians and Native Hawaiians). The conference program will be co-sponsored by the Center for Native and Pacific Health Disparities Research (CNPHDR), Department of Native Hawaiian Health, John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawaii and the Association of American Indian Physicians (AAIP). These two native-focused organizations have formed a cooperative partnership to plan, coordinate and implement this conference entitled "Advancing Native Health and Wellness". Both organizations are well established native serving organizations who collectively have more than 50+ years of health conference planning experience and who represent native physicians, academic scholars, and primary health care providers with close ties to Native communities, villages and tribes. The overall conference objective is to provide an innovative conference setting that will stimulate discussion and sharing of scientific knowledge, cultural wisdom and native-driven models of health and wellness that will inform health policy and health programs designed to promote the health and wellness of Native Peoples in the US. The 5-1/2-day conference will include health care topics related to native driven research, diversity in the biomedical and health care workforce, community engagement and traditional healing through scientific presentations, training/faculty workshops and community panel discussions as well as talking circles and talk story sessions. The application aims to complete these goals through the following: Specific aim #1: Present and discuss the latest scientific advances on health and health care disparities among Alaska Natives, American Indians, and Native Hawaiians. Specific aim #2: Provide opportunities and raise awareness of student/resident training and faculty development programs designed to build a diverse biomedical research and health care workforce for Native Peoples of the US. Specific aim #3: Share and understand the practice of traditional healing and cultural wisdom to achieve holistic health in Native Peoples. Specific aim #4: Describe and demonstrate the impact of culturally appropriate models of health care service and community programs that have been effective in improving the health and wellness of Native peoples of the US. Thus, the conference will feature a strong scientific program embedded within a native cultural context that will bring together a diverse group of speakers representing research scientists, students, emerging investigators, traditional healers, health care providers, community leaders and policy makers. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The scientific need for a conference dedicated to examining Native health disparities is both timely and fills a gap in our understanding of the complex issues that have contributed to or served as the root causes of excess health burdens such as diabetes, obesity, cancer, heart disease and suicide that disproportionately affects Native populations in the US. This conference aims to explore some of the complexities that Native People experience in the US that may be detrimental to their health as well as factors that enable resilience and ownership of their health and wellness that has the potential for reversing health disparities across all Native Peoples in the US.