Converging Sciences Summit: Community Engagement and Leadership Development

描述（由申请人提供）：长岛和其他地方的边缘化和少数群体社区在获得保健服务和信息方面存在差异。卫生技术与管理学院的健康与康复科学博士课程提议与公共卫生，护理学院和石溪大学的其他健康科学学院在2015年4月举行的第三届半年度多学科融合科学峰会上运用石溪大学和其他地方的教师和学生的专业知识来弥合医疗服务和资源差距的差距这些差距一直存在于服务不足的边缘化和少数群体社区。2015年科学融合峰会的主题是“社区参与和领导力发展”。目标是：(1)鼓励社区参与研究的发展，以消除健康差距；(2)指导和支持大学和社区环境中代表少数群体和边缘化群体并与之合作的新兴领导者；(3)提供持续对话、专业成长和社交的机会。在学术卫生科学背景下，社区参与被定义为服务学习、领导力发展和研究方面的实践，其中公共卫生工作者、社区活动家和大学利益相关者共同努力，在个人和系统层面上做出积极的改变。在卫生领域，社区参与的机会很多：在制定相关的基础科学问题时，在设计教育、预防和减少风险的干预措施时，在各级推动卫生系统变革以增加获得卫生服务和信息的机会时。社会科学和保健科学的跨学科方法的存在是为了发展有利于以社区为基础的参与性进程的相互信任和尊重的关系。这次会议将是一个突出这一实践领域的社区和大学领导人的机会。我们特别感兴趣的伙伴关系是批判性地探索和反思“社区”和“健康差距”的基本概念。什么是“边缘化社区”？什么是在种族、民族、性别、性向、残疾、社会地位、地区多样性和共性方面既将我们分开又将我们联系起来的交叉点？个人和团体以什么创新的方式处理这些复杂性？

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Marginalized and minority communities on Long Island and elsewhere experience disparities in access to health services and information. Doctoral Program in Health and Rehabilitation Sciences in the School of Health Technology and Management is proposing to partner with Public Health, School of Nursing the other health sciences schools in Stony Brook University in our 3rd semi-annual multidisciplinary Converging Sciences Summit in April 2015 to apply the expertise of faculty and students at Stony Brook and beyond for the purpose of bridging the gaps in health services and resource disparities that have persisted in underserved marginalized and minority communities. The focus of the 2015 Converging Sciences Summit will be on the theme of "Community Engagement and Leadership Development." The goals are to: (1) Encourage growth of community engaged research to eliminate health disparities; (2) Mentor to support emerging leaders both in university and community settings who represent and work with minority and marginalized groups; (3) Provide opportunities for continuing dialogue, professional growth and networking. Community Engagement in the academic health sciences context is defined as practices in service learning, leadership development and research where public health workers, community activists, and university stakeholders work together for positive change on individual and systemic levels. In the realms of health there are numerous opportunities for community engagement: when framing relevant basic science questions, designing interventions for education, prevention, and risk reduction and working for health systems change at all levels to increase access to health services and information. Interdisciplinary methodologies in the social and health sciences exist to develop relationships of mutual trust and respect conducive to community-based participatory process. This conference would be an opportunity to highlight community and university leaders in this area of practice. We are particularly interested in partnerships that critically explore an reflect on the basic notions of "community" and "health disparity." What are "marginalized communities" and what are the intersections that both divide and connect us in racial, ethnic, gender, sexuality, disability, social status and regional diversities and commonalities? In what innovative ways are these complexities addressed by individuals and groups?