Molecular Bases of Health Disparities

描述(由申请者提供)：该提案的目标是计划和实施一次为期一天的会议，重点研究健康差距的分子基础及其对基于社区的参与性研究(CBPR)的影响。会议将强调实施分子研究的社区学术方法，以及这些方法如何在不同的社区内得到应用和交流。如何将社区关注的问题传达给学者，以及在研究设计方面可以做出哪些妥协或修改。会议期间将讨论科学家可以用来与社区讨论研究的方法，以及个人和社区参与分子研究的基于证据的做法。这一最重要的主题将通过CBPR的棱镜、吸取的经验教训以及当社区与学术界合作拥有和管理研究的好处和负担时是否可以预见的未来来探讨。具体目标是将区域、国家和国际专家以及社区利益相关者聚集在一起，以：1.了解侧重于健康差异的分子基础的研究的新进展；2.讨论基于证据的方法，让学术界和社区参与CBPR，允许社区分配研究的好处和负担；3.评估科学家可以用来与个人和不同的社区讨论分子研究的方法；4.学习促进个人和不同社区参与分子研究的循证做法；会议将于2013年10月11日(星期五)由新奥尔良的路易斯安那州立大学健康科学中心召开。最终，我们的愿景是，这次科学会议将导致制定一项战略，以加强三州基础设施，以支持分子研究中的CBPR，这些研究已经得到了NIH的资助，或将在未来得到NIH的资助。为此，大会将特别关注目前在阿拉巴马州、密西西比州和路易斯安那州进行的研究，这三个州的健康差距发生率加起来是全国最高的。最后，虽然会议有一个区域重点，但其形式将使所学到的知识和方法可翻译到其他地点。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this proposal is to plan and implement a one-day conference to address research that focuses on the molecular bases of health disparities and its implications for Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR). The conference will highlight community-academic approaches to implement molecular research and how these approaches can be both appropriated and communicated within disparate communities. How community concerns are communicated to academics and what compromises or modifications in study design could be made. Methodologies that scientists can use to discuss research with communities and evidenced based practices for individuals and communities to be involved in molecular studies will be discussed during the conference. This overarching theme will be approached through the prism of CBPR, lessons learned, and whether a future could be envisioned when the benefits and burdens of research are owned and managed by the community in partnership with academia. The specific aim is to bring together regional, national, and international experts and community stakeholders to: 1. Learn new advances on research that focuses on the molecular bases of health disparities; 2. Discuss evidenced-based methodologies to engage academia and communities in CBPR that allows for the community appropriation of the benefits and burdens of research; 3. Evaluate methodologies that scientists can use to discuss molecular research with individuals and disparate communities; 4. Learn from evidenced-practices that facilitate individuals and disparate communities to be involved in molecular studies; The conference will be convened on Friday, October 11, 2013 by the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. Ultimately, our vision is that this scientific meeting will lead to the development of a strategy to strengthen a tri-state infrastructure to support CBPR within molecular research already funded, or to be funded in the future by the NIH. To that end, the conference will pay particular attention to current research being performed in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, the three states that together have the highest incidence of health disparities in the nation. Finally, although the conference has a regional focus, its format would be such that the knowledge and approaches learned would be translatable to other locales.