Diabetes and Health Disparities: Community-Based Approaches for Racial and Ethnic Populations

Objective: Participants will become familiar with lessons learned through selected community-based diabetes interventions implemented and evaluated in communities of color across the U.S. **Please note: This is proposed as a panel presentation.

Methods: National experts collaborated on a monograph titled: "Diabetes and Health Disparities: Community-based Approaches for Racial and Ethnic Populations"

Results: This collaborative effort led to the development of an innovative text that chronicles the rise in diabetes over the past 60 years in communities of color; critically examines why public health action to date to reverse the disparity in diabetes prevalence has been noble, but inadequate; and inspires a broader public health and health policy response that centers on comprehensive community-based approaches as promising and best practices in that response.

Conclusion:A panel of the authors who have collaborated on this text will offer lessons learned regarding effective community-based diabetes interventions implemented and evaluated in communities of color across the U.S.