Session: Pathways to Empowerment: Harnessing Science to Address Substance Abuse in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities (2011 SACNAS National Conference)

Friday, October 28, 2011: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Room A7 (San Jose Convention Center)

Chair:

Kathleen Etz, PhD, American Indian and Alaska Native Coordinating Committee and Program Director, ERB, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health

Description: Substance abuse and other behavioral health issues are overrepresented in American Indian and Alaska Native populations. The speakers will showcase how science, across disciplines, can mitigate these health disparities by identifying the factors related to them, using this information to develop interventions, and evaluating interventions to ensure they improve outcomes.

Sponsored by: Sponsored by HHS/NIH - National Institute on Drug Abuse

8:30 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:35 AM

The Power to Change: Designing and Evaluating Culturally Relevant Interventions for Substance Abuse and Related Outcomes
John Walkup, MD , Vice Chair, Department of Pscyhiatry, Director, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry , Weill Cornell Medical College

9:00 AM

The Power to Understand: Caring for Our Generations by Identifying Risk and Resiliency
Tessa Evans-Campbell, PhD , Associate Professor , University of Washington

9:25 AM

The Power to Explain: Using a Biopsychosocial Model to Identify Intervention Targets for Smoking and Nicotine Dependence Among American Indians
Jeffrey Henderson, MD/MPH , President and CEO , Black Hills Center for American Indian Health

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