Interdisciplinary and Cross-Sector Approaches to Advancing Black Community Health

在遏制美国整体人口肥胖症流行方面取得进展的令人鼓舞的报告是 调查结果表明，有利的趋势并不同样适用于种族/民族和社会经济 状态。在一些少数民族和低收入群体中，肥胖率继续上升或保持较高水平 人口亚群，包括黑人成年人和儿童。非裔美国人协作性肥胖 研究网络(AACORN)将主办一次国家研讨会，总体目标是参与 跨学科学者小组以及来自不同社会部门的利益攸关方参与制定 “集体影响”研究和研究转化议程，以促进黑人社区健康。这个 研讨会将于2016年8月在宾夕法尼亚州费城举行。重点将放在能够 导致美国黑人在饮食、体力活动和体重方面的健康结果得到改善。 具体目标是使研讨会参与者能够：1)整合来自多个学科的见解， 包括生物医学、技术、社会科学、公共卫生、艺术和人文；2)评估 商业、社会政策、公共领域的理论、战略和工具的潜在效用和适用性 政策、营销、城市规划和公民参与；3)确定互补解决方案的优先顺序 跨多个部门，例如经济和金融、食品系统、教育、住房、交通、 规划、卫生保健等；4)确认成功创建或 倡导改变影响美国黑人和其他高危人群健康行为的环境 5)了解与多学科相适应的相关评价措施和工具 评估标准，并涉及绩效评估计划。为期两天的研讨会，包括会议前 前一天下午/晚上的活动将有80至100人参加。总的目标和目的将是 通过跨学科和跨部门的知识交流、人与人之间的互动以及 体验式学习和改进研究议程。参与者将包括学者和已建立的 研究人员贯穿整个职业生涯，从那些正在接受培训的人到成熟的高级学者。与一致 所代表的主题、学科、部门和实践领域将包括医学、 医疗保健服务、城乡公共卫生、社会科学、营销学、传播学、经济学、 艺术/人文、食品体系、教育、儿童发展、城市规划和慈善事业。该格式将 高度互动，借鉴适合主题的策略，并包括以下场景的使用 小组讨论的基础。评估将侧重于跨部门研究的质量 出现的翻译议程，由不同的研讨会与会者和研讨会后评估 来自非参与者的选定专家的反馈。AACORN的跨部门网络与国家 黑人组织将是传播的主要途径，外行和学术出版物提供支持。

The encouraging reports of progress in curbing the obesity epidemic in the US population as a whole are tempered by findings that the favorable trends do not apply equally across racial/ethnic and socioeconomic status. Obesity prevalence continues to increase or remain higher in some ethnic minority and low income population subgroups, including black adults and children. The African American Collaborative Obesity Research Network (AACORN) will host a national workshop with the overarching objective of engaging interdisciplinary groups of scholars as well as stakeholders from diverse societal sectors in the development of a “collective impact” research and research translation agenda to advance black community health. The workshop will be held in August 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The focus will be on strategies that can lead to improvements in black Americans' health outcomes related to diet, physical activity, and body weight. Specific aims are to enable workshop participants to: 1) Integrate insights from multiple academic disciplines, including biomedical sciences, technology, social sciences, public health, arts and humanities; 2) Evaluate the potential utility and applicability of theories, strategies and tools from the fields of business, social policy, public policy, marketing, city planning, and civic engagement; 3) Prioritize pathways for complementary solutions across multiple-sectors, e.g., economics and finance, food systems, education, housing, transportation, planning, and health care, among others; 4) Recognize common themes in successful efforts to create or advocate for changes in environments that influence health behaviors in black American and other high risk populations; and 5) Learn about relevant evaluation measures and tools that fit with multidisciplinary assessment criteria, and involve performance measurement plans. The 2-day workshop, with pre-conference events on the prior afternoon/evening, will involve 80 to 100 participants. The overall objective and aims will be achieved through interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral knowledge exchange, person-to-person interactions, and experiential learning, and improving research agendas. Participants will include scholars and established researchers across the career continuum from those in training to established senior scholars. Consistent with the theme, the disciplines, sectors, and areas of practice represented will include, among others, medicine, health care delivery, urban and rural public health, social sciences, marketing, communications, economics, arts/humanities, foods systems, education, child development, city planning, and philanthropy. The format will be highly interactive, drawing on strategies that are suited to the theme and including the use of scenarios as the basis for small group discussions. Evaluation will focus on the quality of the cross sectoral research translation agenda that emerges, as assessed by diverse workshop participants and by post-workshop feedback from selected experts who were not participants. AACORN's cross-sectoral networking with national black organizations will be the main route for dissemination, supported by lay and academic publications.