Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 11, Number 7, 1 July 1994 — Native Hawaiian Health Conference focuses on benefits of research [ARTICLE]

Native Hawaiian Health Conference focuses on benefits of research

Many kinds of research projects have been conducted on Hawaiians and their heahh. but are they helping to make Hawaiians healthier people? How ean researchers work niore closely with Hawaiian communities to make research a meaningful partnership for improved Hawaiian

heahh? A Native Hawaiian Heahh Conference is being held July 2930 at Kamehameha Schools, to inform the Hawaiian community and interested persons about medieal research currently being eonducted, who's doing it and for what purpose, and how it will

benefit the heahh of Hawaiians in the future. Some of the topic areas include: diabetes, lifestyle, AIDS, drug abuse, dental heahh and nutrition, cancer, prenatal care, early child care and maternal care, heart, lung and bIood heahh, and mental heahh. All Hawaiians are invited to attend and talk with researchers in the Hawaiian community, to find out what they're doing, to identify future needs and to suggest ways in whieh researchers ean work with communities as partners. For more information, contact Papa Ola Lōkahi at 536-9453. To register in advance, send $20 eonference fee (covers the cost of meals) with your name and address to: Papa Ola Lōkahi, Kawaiaha'o Plaza, Suite 600. Honolulu, Hawai'i 96813. Registration will also be accepted at the door .