UTRGV International Conference on Health Disparities: Treatment and Recovery from Opioid and Alcohol Use Disorders and Related Comorbidities (ICHD-Recover)

摘要 德克萨斯大学格兰德河谷(UTRGV)是世界上第二大拉美裔服务机构 国家，于2015年成立了医学院(SOM)，以满足代表不足的人的健康需求 德克萨斯州南部美墨边境的少数民族(URM)人口。2017年，作为其使命的一部分，高级官员会议 开始主持关于健康差距的年度研究会议。这是#年的第一次此类会议。 格兰德河谷(RGV)。到目前为止，超过一半的参与者是城市管理人员和妇女。每年 自2017年以来，UTRGV举办了一次健康差距研究会议，吸引了300多人参加 每年。预计将有美国和墨西哥边境机构参与，UTRGV-SOM将主办 2022年9月9日至10日和2023年9月8日至9日举行的第五次和第六次会议。书名将是《国际》 健康差距会议：阿片类药物和酒精使用障碍及相关疾病的治疗和恢复 合并症(ICHD-RECOVER)。阿片类药物和酒精使用障碍是严重的国家公共卫生问题 在URM人群中尤为严重。排雷中心--恢复工作有以下具体目标：1) 加快国家层面和美墨边境研究人员之间的合作，2) 促进社区利益攸关方在研究和实施方面的参与和协作 与文化相关的干预措施，从而获得社区对物质使用障碍研究的支持，3) 鼓励开展新的研究，重点关注阿片类药物和酒精使用障碍，解决URM健康问题 相关的合并症，4)激励来自URM人群的受训人员从事药物滥用研究， 5)将格兰德河谷(RGV)的研究成果传播给研究人员和卫生政策 其他边境地区、州和国家的制造商。拟议的会议将包括全国范围内的 著名的演讲者、全体会议、摘要和海报由学生、研究人员、研究员、教职员工、 以及来自美国和邻近的墨西哥边境机构的专业人士。我们75%的人 演讲者来自URM。资金将用于1)邀请顶尖研究人员、健康差距专家和年轻人 来自美国边境地区和墨西哥的科学家，以及2)在两年多的时间里实施拟议的科学议程 几天，从而展示了社区参与的研究，在这些研究中，研究人员和从业者解决了阿片类药物和 酒精使用障碍在URM人群中的健康差异。ICHD-RECOVER与美国国立卫生研究院密切相关 使命是支持全球阿片类药物和酒精使用障碍和健康差距研究，以推动 科学知识和帮助所有受影响的人从阿片类药物和酒精滥用的后果中恢复过来。 ICHD-RECOVER会议将：1)强调医学研究界如何最有效地 与社区利益相关者互动，考虑健康的社会决定因素，为设计和 实施社区干预方案，以及2)解决患有以下疾病的人的健康差距 阿片类药物和酒精滥用以及相关的URM人群共病的后果。

ABSTRACT The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), the second largest Hispanic-serving institution in the nation, founded the School of Medicine (SOM) in 2015 to address the health needs of the underrepresented minority (URM) populations of south Texas on the US-Mexico border. In 2017, as part of its mission, the SOM began hosting an annual research conference on health disparities. The conference was the first of its kind in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV). To date, more than half the participants have been URMs and women. Each year since 2017 UTRGV has held a health disparities research conference that has attracted more than 300 attendees each year. With expected participation from both US and Mexico border institutions, the UTRGV-SOM will host the 5th and 6th conferences on September 9-10, 2022, and September 8-9, 2023. The title will be “International Conference on Health Disparities: Treatment and Recovery from Opioid and Alcohol Use Disorders and Related Comorbidities (ICHD-Recover).” Opioid and alcohol use disorders are significant national public health problems and are particularly severe among URM populations. The ICHD-Recover has the following Specific Aims: 1) To accelerate collaborations among researchers at the national level and across the U.S.-Mexico border, 2) To facilitate engagement and collaboration with community stakeholders in research and implementation of culturally relevant interventions, thus obtaining community support for research on substance use disorders, 3) To stimulate new lines of research addressing URM health with a focus on opioid and alcohol use disorders and related comorbidities, 4) To motivate trainees from URM populations to engage in substance abuse research, and 5) To disseminate research findings from the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) to researchers and health policy makers in other border regions and states and the nation. The proposed conferences will include nationally known speakers, plenary sessions, abstracts, and posters presented by students, researchers, fellows, faculty, and professionals from the U.S. and neighboring Mexican border institutions. Seventy five percent of our speakers are from URM. Funds will be used to 1) invite leading researchers, health disparity experts and young scientists, from the U.S. border regions and Mexico, and 2) implement the proposed scientific agenda over two days, thus showcasing community-engaged research in which researchers and practitioners address opioid and alcohol use disorder health disparities in URM populations. The ICHD-Recover closely aligns with the NIH mission, which is to support global opioid and alcohol use disorders and health disparities research to advance scientific knowledge and aid all those affected to recover from the consequences of opioid and alcohol misuse. The ICHD-Recover conferences will, 1) emphasize how the medical research community can most effectively interact with community stakeholders, considering the social determinants of health to inform the design and implementation of community intervention programs, and 2) address health disparities in persons suffering from the consequences of opioid and alcohol misuse and associated comorbidities in URM populations.