OCTOBER 7-9, 2019
Las Vegas, Nevada
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Abstract Submission for both oral and poster presentations is now open! The deadline to submit is July 15th at 11:59 PM. Submissions are welcome from faculty, postdocs, students and IDeA programs (INBRE, COBRE, CTR-IN, NAIPI, etc.). Please note that we are especially interested in abstracts related to two specialty breakout sessions: Drug Discovery, and Opioid and Other Drug Abuse.
Don't forget the Pre-Conference Workshops!
Bioinformatics Workshop, Proteomics Workshop, Grant Writing Workshop, PEARL (Program Evaluation and Administration of Research Leaders) Meeting, American Indian Health Disparities Meeting, NV INBRE Annual Statewide Meeting. Details and fees can be found on the Pre-Conference Workshop page.
Pre-Conference Highlight:
Indigenous Health Working Group Meeting $0.00
8:30 AM-2:30 PM
Session Co-Chairs: Alika Maunakea, University of Hawaii and Christine M. Porter, University of Wyoming
Description: Within the US, Indigenous communities suffer among the worst health outcomes of American racial groups. In addition, overall US public health is quite poor, including having the highest infant and maternal mortality rates among rich nations and high chronic disease rates. The US needs new strategies-new paradigms even-to improve our nation's health and, especially, Indigenous health.
Indigenous standpoints on health may offer promising ways forward for this, in particular, due to an understanding of health from a holistic perspective. Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) approaches offer not only specific local expertise but also a general systems-oriented perspective that is quickly emerging as a more effective framework within public health than conventional, often reductionistic paradigms (per the socio-ecological model) and tend to center on individuals rather than (for example) relationships and true ecology. For example, a mini wičoni (water is life) frame of thinking embodies such a TEK health paradigm; if public health and other government officials in Flint and the Central Valley made decisions informed by this framework, drinking water crises in both places would have been averted.
This workshop will build on conversations started at the 2017 regional IDeA meeting to begin planning a collaborative research agenda that is founded on an indigenous public health paradigm and model development (including potentially seeking NIH R13 or R21 funding). The planning committee will open with a short presentation of the review of relevant literature. This will be followed by a circa 5-minute presentations from each attending team who has registered for this workshop by September 10th and would like to share; these presentations will share specific lessons and ideas gleaned from your work that is relevant to this workshop focus. The rest of the day will be collaborative planning.
A light lunch will be provided, courtesy of the Wyoming INBRE program.
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