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Call for Abstracts: 18th Annual IHS National Research
Conference 
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Call for Abstracts due March 3
18th Annual Indian Health Service (IHS) Research
Conference
April 24-26, 2006

"Discovering Pathways to Better Health for American
Indians 
and Alaska 
Natives"

The , "Discovering Pathways to Better Health for
American 
Indians and
Alaska Natives," will enhance our ability to ensure 
benefits of the
research to Native communities and peoples. The
conference 
will also
examine in depth the impact of aging and mental health

research activity
in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN)
communities. 
While this
18th Annual Indian Health Service (IHS) Research
Conference 
will focus
on aging and mental health, it will touch 
on all aspects of AIAN health. 

Abstracts on all topics are welcome, as long as they 
concern research
by, for, or about American Indians, Alaska Natives,
First 
Nations and/or
Inuit peoples. Submit your oral or poster presentation
for 
the following
categories by March 3, 2006:
Access to Care, Adolescent Health, Aging, AIDS,
Alcohol and 
Substance 
Abuse, Alternative Healing Practices, Asthma, Cancer, 
Cardiovascular 
Disease, Other Chronic Illness, Continuity of
Care/Medical 
Home Models, 
Diabetes, Environmental Health, Epidemiology, Health
Care
Administration, 
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Health
Services 
Research, 
Immunizations, Infectious Disease (e.g. RSV,
Pneumococcal 
Disease, etc),

Injury Prevention, Maternal and Child Health, Mental 
Health, Nutrition, 
Obesity, Oral Health, Telemedicine, Traditional
Medicine, 
Urban Health
and 
Women's Health.


Abstracts meeting one of the following criteria will
be 
given special 
consideration:
* Submissions by AI/AN, First Nations, or Inuit
students.

* Research that measures the effectiveness of
innovative 
health care 
intervention, or that involves exemplary partnerships 
between
researchers 
and tribes

* Research issues common to native populations in both

Canada and the US
This conference is being co-sponsored and organized by
the 
Native
Research 
Network, http://www.aaip.com/nrnet/nrn.html


For more information, including instructions for
submitting 
abstracts,
see 
the word document posted at the top of this webpage:
http://www.ihs.gov/MedicalPrograms/Research/events.cfm#april2006


Abstracts from last year's conference are available
at:
http://www.ihs.gov/generalweb/webapps/sitelink/site.asp?link=http://www.
aap.org/nach/InternationalMeeting.htm


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