International Conference on Health in the African Diaspora (ICHAD)

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请是对PA-10-071 - NIH会议和科学会议支持（父R13/U13）的回应。我们正在R13机制下寻求赠款资金，以召开一次题为“美洲非洲移民健康问题国际会议”的会议。“ICHAD会议将于2012年7月4日至8日在马里兰州的巴尔的摩举行。会议的目标是为学者提供一个国际平台，就西半球黑人面临的主要健康挑战（包括健康差距）的解决方案交流知识。我们得到了W.K.的资助。凯洛格基金会，承担大部分会议费用。我们现在正在寻求NIMHD的支持，以涵盖语言翻译服务，以方便西班牙语和葡萄牙语与会者的访问。在17世纪和19世纪之间，跨大西洋奴隶贸易在整个美洲和加勒比地区产生了大量的非洲移民。今天，大约有6 000万非洲人后裔生活在西半球。他们有着共同的被迫移徙和征服的历史，但他们所在国家的文化和历史背景不同， 定居者形成了不同的社会和文化经历。人们对这些共同点和差异在健康和社会地位方面产生的影响了解有限。美国、加拿大和巴西等一些国家进行了大量研究，记录了显著的种族差异。然而，在其他国家，如洪都拉斯和哥伦比亚，关于种族差异的研究还处于早期阶段。在W的支持下，K.凯洛格基金会，NIMHD资助的霍普金斯健康差异解决方案中心（HCHDS）的工作人员一直在努力确定西半球正在进行非洲裔人口健康差异研究的研究人员。我们现在提议召集这些同事，分享研究结果和解决美国非洲裔人口健康差距的办法。拟议的会议将支持以下目标：1。探讨和描述西半球非洲裔人口的健康状况; 2.确定在整个地区“种族”概念化的差异和共同点，并描述“种族”的不同概念化如何影响我们如何理解黑人人口的健康和健康差距; 3.确定该地区黑人人口的社会和历史经历的差异和共同点，并描述这些差异如何导致黑人亚群体之间健康状况和医疗保健的变化; 4.描述西半球健康方面的种族差异现象，并确定这些差异的可能原因和潜在的干预领域;确定有希望的研究和干预领域，为美国和其他地方未来的健康差异研究提供信息; 6.建立一个持续的多学科学者网络，以开展该地区黑人健康状况的未来调查。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is in response to PA-10-071 - NIH Support for Conference and Scientific Meetings (Parent R13/U13). We are seeking grant funding under the R13 mechanism to convene a conference titled "International Conference on Health in the African Diaspora of the Americas (ICHAD)." The ICHAD conference will be held July 4-8, 2012 in Baltimore, MD. The goal of the conference is to provide an international platform for scholars to exchange knowledge about solutions to major health challenges, including health disparities, facing black populations in the Western Hemisphere. We have received grant support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, which covers most of the conference costs. We are now seeking support from NIMHD to cover language translation services to facilitate access to Spanish-speaking and Portuguese-speaking attendees. Between the 1600s and the 1800s, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade gave rise to a large African Diaspora throughout the Americas and the Caribbean. Today there are approximately 60 million African descendants living in the Western Hemisphere. They share a common history of forced migration and subjugation, but the different cultural and historical contexts of the countries in which they have settled have forged divergent social and cultural experiences. There is only limited understanding of what these commonalities and differences have produced in terms of health and social status. Some countries - such as the United States, Canada and Brazil - have produced a significant volume of research documenting striking race disparities. However, in other counties - such as Honduras and Colombia - research on race disparities is in the early stages. With support from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, staff of the NIMHD-funded Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions (HCHDS) has been working to identify researchers throughout the Western Hemisphere who are conducting research on health disparities among African descent populations. We now propose to convene these colleagues to share research findings and solutions to health disparities among African descent populations of the Americans. The proposed conference will support the following aims: 1. To explore and describe the health status of the African descent populations of the Western Hemisphere; 2. To identify differences and commonalities in how "race" is conceptualized throughout the region and describe how the different conceptualizations of "race" influence how we understand health and health disparities in black populations; 3. To identify differences and commonalities in the social and historical experiences of black populations in the region and describe how these differences contribute to variations in health status and health care among black subgroups; 4. To describe the phenomenon of racial disparities in health in the Western Hemisphere and identify possible causes for these disparities and potential areas for intervention; 5. To identify areas of promising research and intervention which can inform future research on health disparities in the U.S. and elsewhere; and 6. To establish an ongoing, multidisciplinary network of scholars to undertake future investigations of black health status in the region.