American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) Building Indigenous Research Capacity in Health (BIRCH) project

AIHEC白桦树整体核心 项目/叙事 美国印第安人高等教育联盟(AIHEC)“建立本土化研究”的愿景 卫生能力“(BIRCH)项目是主张完全拥有、指导和控制的主权部落国家 帮助他们的人民健康和强壮所需的健康研究。在中国实施新计划 全国37个TCU，AIHEC将为美国印第安人和阿拉斯加原住民提供额外资源 (AIAN)学生追求课程和职业，这将使他们能够充当医疗保健提供者和 研究人员。该项目提供了一种全面的方法来发展AIAN和 实施传统知识实践的非本地研究人员、教育工作者和社区从业者 在解决AIAN健康问题和不断改进土著健康和健康研究实践方面， 结果。 缺乏部落保健研究人员和提供者使健康差距长期存在，并在 部落社区。此外，研究表明，拥有部落医疗保健提供者和 研究人员的治疗依从性更高，死亡率或严重疾病更少。推广 AIAN学生的进步不仅会让学生受益。尽管如此，这也将带来更健康的部落 社区，提高对医疗保健访问和干预的遵从性，参与临床试验，以及 减少疾病和死亡的主要原因，如糖尿病、物质使用障碍、伤害、 凶杀案和自杀案。 该项目的长期目标是：扩大土著研究实践社区 国家TCU的健康/健康科学；将TCU建立为以部落为中心的基本组成部分 国家卫生科学研究和教育基础设施；提高卫生服务质量 使用以科学为基础的经验方法来制定和评估干预措施 与土著人民和社区相关，并以核心部落价值观、文化和传统为基础； 扩展卫生研究和教育事业管道的TCU部分，以招聘、支持和 为AIAN学生追求健康事业提供关键联系；增强部落和部落社区的能力 制定和控制他们的研究议程，并将研究与部落价值观和需求联系起来，并 促进本土知识和西方知识的融合。

AIHEC BIRCH Overall Core Project/Narrative The vision of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium’s (AIHEC) “Building Indigenous Research Capacity in Health” (BIRCH) project is sovereign Tribal Nations asserting full ownership, direction, and control of the health research needed to help their people grow healthy and strong. Implementing new programs in the 37 TCUs across the country, AIHEC will provide additional resources for American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) students to pursue coursework and careers that will enable them to act as healthcare providers and researchers. This project provides a comprehensive approach to growing a networked community of AIAN and non-Native researchers, educators, and community practitioners to implement traditional knowledge practices in addressing AIAN health issues and continuously improve Native health and health research practices and outcomes. The lack of tribal healthcare researchers and providers perpetuates health disparities and a lack of equity in tribal communities. Furthermore, studies show that communities with tribal healthcare providers and researchers have a higher treatment adherence and fewer mortalities or serious illnesses. Promoting the advancement of AIAN students will not only benefit the students. Still, it will also lead to healthier tribal communities, increased compliance with healthcare visits and interventions, participation in clinical trials, and a reduction in the primary causes of illness and mortality such as diabetes, substance use disorders, injuries, homicide, and suicide. The long-term goals of the project are: To expand a community of Indigenous research practice in health/health sciences at the nation’s TCUs; to establish TCUs as essential tribally-centered components of the national health sciences research and education infrastructure; to improve the quality of health services provided to AIANs using a science-based empirical approach to intervention development and evaluation that is relevant to Native peoples and communities and based on core tribal values, cultures, and traditions; to expand the TCU component of the health research and education career pipeline to recruit, support, and provide critical linkages for AIAN students to pursue health careers; to empower tribes and tribal communities to develop and control their research agenda and connect that research to tribal values and needs, and to promote the integration of Indigenous knowledge and Western knowledge.