Vision to Action: Achieving Health Equity in Indian Country

描述(由申请者提供)：本次会议履行了NIH的总体使命，即通过促进国家、地区和当地部落、部落学院和部落联盟之间的创新合作和伙伴关系，改善美国印第安人和阿拉斯加原住民(AIAN)的健康状况，消除健康差距。这次会议将产生具体的计划，以合作和提高健康差距研究的能力，并增加AIAN的科学劳动力。具体目标是：(1)使部落和土著社区伙伴和研究人员参与规划和确定研究机会，以改善基于行为和社会的不良健康状况；(2)通过一系列讲习班讨论/培训，就土著和西方研究方法、政策、程序和方法的最新进展，建设健康差距研究方面的能力；(3)创建、汇编和传播伙伴关系工具和措施。这次会议的前提是，文化上量身定做的对话将帮助AIAN的利益相关者确定 他们的社区，与研究伙伴沟通和合作的最有价值的方式，以及AIAN部落和社区希望参与卫生研究的方式。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This conference fulfills the NIH's overall mission to improve American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) health and eliminate health disparities by fostering innovative collaborations and partnerships across national, regional, and local tribes, tribal colleges, and tribal consortia. The conference will result in concrete plans to collaborate n and increase capacity for health disparities research and to increase AIAN in the scientific workforce. The specific aims are to: (1) Engage tribal and native community partners and researchers in planning and identification of research opportunities to ameliorate behaviorally- and socially-based negative health conditions; (2) Build capacity in health disparities research through a series of workshop discussions/trainings about the latest advances in indigenous and Western research methods, policies, processes, and approaches; (3) Create, compile and disseminate partnership tools and measures. This conference's premise is that a culturally tailored dialogue will aid AIAN stakeholders in identifying the most pressing health disparities in their communities, the most valuable ways of communicating and working together with research partners, and the ways in which AIAN tribes and communities want to be involved in health research.