What is the 2012 Science of Eliminating Health Disparities Summit?

The 2012 Science of Eliminating Health Disparities Summit is an HHS-wide endeavor involving a broad spectrum of the federal government that seeks to advance activities to eliminate health disparities.  The agenda will build on the momentum of the 2008 Summit and the increased interest of federal agencies to demonstrate their commitment towards improving the health of all Americans.  The 2012 Health Disparities Summit represents an ongoing focus on emerging science and its intersection with practice and policy, while maintaining momentum on current national and international trends in addressing the social determinants of health.

Summit Goals

The 2012 Science of Eliminating Health Disparities Summit is focused on Building a Healthier Global Society by Integrating Science, Practice, and Policy, and specifically aims to:

Provide scientific evidence to inform immediate policies and actions to confront health disparities issues facing regional, national and global societies
Provide the practical steps on how the scientific evidence for addressing health disparities could be translated into practice in different communities and global settings
Identify practical innovations in translational research to inform practice and policy
Gather recommendations on evidence-based science policy and practical objectives and measures that can be tracked for progress over the next ten years
Publish recommendations and findings that will contribute to the development of an integrated strategy for addressing national and global inequality

Who is invited to attend?

The 2012 Science of Eliminating Health Disparities Summit will convene a highly diverse group of professionals, advocates, community stakeholders, and leaders in government, academia, business, medicine, science, dentistry, public health, and policy, in the Nation’s Capitol to participate in interactive moderated discussions on critical cross-cutting topics in the multi-faceted field of health disparities.  The overall objective is to forge new alliances and provide a launching pad for creativity, collaboration, and innovation that will accelerate improved health for all Americans and a healthier global society.

History of the Summit

In 2008, the NIMHD hosted the first NIH Summit on the Science of Eliminating Health Disparities, in partnership with all of the NIH Institutes and Centers, bringing together more than 4,000 national and international clinicians, researchers, policy leaders, academicians, and community leaders.  The Summit’s aims were to highlight recent progress made in addressing health disparities, identify gaps, and gather recommendations that would redefine the research agenda and future approaches to integrate multiple disciplines in efforts towards eliminating health disparities.

Additional Information

Organized around the core principle of integrating science, policy, and practice, the 2012 Health Disparities Summit offers a forum for government, academia, and the public to advance scholarship and translate new knowledge into action.  The rapid progress of research on health disparities opens up new possibilities for identifying effective policies with potential for building a healthier global society. The program will feature daily plenary sessions, concurrent sessions, poster sessions, and integrated panel discussions, on a wide array of topics and themes.  This format will facilitate thought-provoking dialogue by bringing together presenters from diverse disciplines that are taking unique, complementary, and sometimes distinctively different approaches to health disparities.  The results and recommendations generated from the sessions will serve as a roadmap for building a healthier global society in the future.  Whether you are a long-time champion of health disparities research or are an individual interested in health promotion and well-being, the 2012 Health Disparities Summit will provide you with a broad range of educational and networking opportunities.

The summit will be organized around three main tracks:

Translational and Transdisciplinary Research Track will link policy, practice, and research findings to real-world issues with neighborhoods, health disparity population groups, and the global community.  Featured research will articulate how findings have led to new knowledge in science, practice, and/or policy interventions.
Capacity-Building and Infrastructure Track will focus on themes in support of capacity-building and infrastructure.  Topics will explore the challenges and opportunities in building capacity for research, public health and primary care practice, services delivery, training and education.  It will also include the implementation and sustainability of infrastructure and economic development in disparate communities.
Outreach, Partnerships, Collaborations, and Opportunities Track will provide a venue for representatives from federal agencies, academic institutions, foundations, non-profit and private organizations, and community groups to showcase their innovative partnerships and outreach and dissemination efforts, including successful collaborations in addressing health disparities, and building a healthier global society.

The theme “Global Health in a Shifting World Economy” will specifically be examining the:

The growing economic crisis in Europe and the impact on social welfare programs;
Private/public partnerships;
Economic growth with growing inequities in health;
The role of state capitalism and the infusion of development aid;
Existing and evolving global inequities in health and their expected and unexpected impacts on the world’s marginalized and vulnerable populations, including indigenous groups.

Plenary sessions and topic-focused symposia will be followed by workshops, special sessions, and oral and poster sessions to help facilitate knowledge dissemination in areas of global shifts in the economy and global health equity in local, national, and global contexts.

Global Health in a Shifting World Economy – call for abstracts deadline extended to May 30th!

The Canadian Society for International Health invites you to submit an abstract for the 2012 Canadian Conference on Global Health – thedeadline is May 15th! Abstracts for oral and poster presentations and for workshops or symposia are welcome from researchers and students

Abstracts

Submissions should be directly related to the overall theme “Global health in the shifting world economy” and suggested topic areas are:

Shifting demographics and the disease burden
Employment, workers rights and migration in health in the shifting world economy
Sustainable environments in the shifting world economy
Training, service delivery and health human resources in the shifting world economy
Democratization of development in the shifting world economy
Ethics of development in the shifting world economy
Access to healthcare and medicines in the shifting world economy
Global health education in the shifting world economy
Global health research in the shifting world economy

Abstracts may focus on new findings, the development of a program, project or new global health tools, moving from development to implementation, policy or ethical issues, or related topics.

Call for special presentations: Canada’s ability to respond

Given the economic realities of today and its impacts on our shifting global markets, perhaps now more than ever, we need to work together, share what we know, and collaborate.

As part of a new initiative, the Canadian Conference on Global Health will be presenting a special session, Canada’s ability to respond, on Sunday, October 21st. Canada’s ability to respond will engage presenters and participants to examine and discuss Canada’s capacity, in partnership with the global South, to respond to global health development and research needs worldwide. To this end, CSIH has prepared an information collection template to assist with the categorization of global health programs, projects, and research taking place in Canada and internationally. If you would like to present your work in this special session, please complete the template.

Please visit our website at http://www.ccgh-csih.ca/csih2012/?lang=en
for more information and to submit your abstract online.
Questions? Please email sbrown@csih.org

Evidence-based practice involves applying evidence to clinical and policy decision making. Critical appraisal provides the tools to assess the quality of evidence in the medical literature and to determine the risks and benefits of different management strategies. Through this trans-disciplinary workshop you will work through relevant examples in order to develop skills in searching for and identifying appropriate evidence, critically appraising the evidence, and applying the evidence to your area of expertise.

Work Shop Objectives

By working through relevant examples to develop skills in searching for and identifying appropriate evidence:

1) Learn skills in critical appraisal and methods for knowledge synthesis
2) Integrate evidence into decision making
3) Network with international leaders in evidence-based practice
4) Discover new approaches to teaching evidence-based practice

Workshop Format

This three-day workshop involves a combination of plenaries, small group sessions lead by experts in their topic area, and a fun, interactive session reinforcing key concepts learned during the workshop:
Small Group Sessions

There will be two facilitators and a librarian leading each small group. Over the three days, there are a total of six 2-hour sessions in the small group of your choice, one of the sessions will be conducted in the experiential lab. There will be approximately 8 to 10 participants per group. For specific small group course outlines please
click here.

Plenaries

Three plenaries presented by speakers specializing in Evidence-based Medicine and a panel discussion

“PEP”ardy

Apply what you have learned in this fun, interactive team
quiz game.

Workshop Participants

Whether you are interested in learning more about knowledge synthesis or enhancing your critical appraisal skills, you will benefit from the expertise of your group’s facilitators and librarian. Small groups will focus on different methods for knowledge synthesis, and different levels and topics of critical appraisal. Participants from all disciplines and all learning levels will benefit from this workshop. For more information click here.
Workshop Materials

Participants are encouraged to make use of the Evidence-based Library Resources page. If you would like to become familiar with material in advance, you can review the critical appraisal guides and tutorials, clinical practice guidelines and searching tutorials.