Consortium for Community-Based Research in Native American Health

七名美洲原住民雇员担任土著健康中心下属的社区组织者(CoS) 蒙大拿州立大学的合作伙伴关系(CNHP)。因为自始至终都在七个保留地生活和工作 并被写入原住民社区研究联合会的父母拨款中 美国健康，作为五年资助期的半职员工。本补充资料的目的是： 1)通过将现有半职CoS的工作时间增加到全职来增强他们的有效性；2)刺激 通过向居住在蒙大拿州保留地的部落工人注入421,053美元的保留地经济；3)加速 通过使CoS能够沟通社区成员和社区成员之间的关系，提高科学研究的速度 研究人员开展健康差距社区参与性研究活动；以及4) 为蒙大拿州的七个原住民社区提供十个研究培训机会。这些目标与 ARRA的宗旨是促进就业和经济发展，同时加快步伐和 科学研究成果。增加COS的工作时间将有助于进一步推动 NCMHD通过：1)通过增加培训，在密歇根州立大学和部落社区建立研究基础设施 和在少数民族健康和健康差距研究领域的专业发展，以及2)创造 以及开展公共卫生信息和社区外展工作，以确保参与 向社区提供有关少数民族健康研究的信息和教育。在拨款的头两年， 我们已经充分认识到CoS在连接社区和学术研究人员方面所起的重要作用 围绕健康差距，与一旦建立的伙伴关系合作，并建设社区能力 研究。他们在部落团结中的存在有助于加强和维持部落之间的对话 学术研究人员和他们的部落社区伙伴。

Seven Native American employees serve as Conmiunity Organizers (COs) under the Center for Native Health Partnerships (CNHP) at Montana State University. COs live and work on the seven reservations throughout Montana and were written into the parent grant, Consortium for Community-Based Research in Native American Health, as half-time employees for the five-year grant period. The goals of this supplement are to: 1) Augment the effectiveness of current half-time COs by increasing their hours to full-time; 2) Stimulate reservation economies by infusing $421,053 -to tribal workers living on Montana reservations; 3) Accelerate the tempo of scientific research by enabling COs to bridge relationships between community members and researchers to carry out health disparity community-based participatory research (CBPR) activities; and 4) Provide ten research training opportunities for seven Native communities in Montana. These goals match the ARRA purpose to promote job creation and economic development along with accelerating the pace and achievement of scientific research.Increasing the hours of COs will help further the scientific priority areas of NCMHD by: 1) building research infrastructure at MSU and Tribal communities through increased training and professional development in the areas of minority health and health disparity research, and 2) creating and conducting public health information and community outreach efforts that ensure participating communities are informed and educated about minority health research. Over the first two years of the grant, we have fully realized the vital role that COs play in connecting communities and academic researchers around healti disparities, working with partnerships once formed, and building community capacity for research. Their presence in tribal conununities serves to strengthen and maintain a dialogue between the academic researchers and their tribal community partners.