Indigenous Wellness Research Institute National Center of Excellence

土著健康研究所国家卓越中心

• 批准号: 8841623
• 负责人: KARINA L. WALTERS
• 金额: $ 124.56万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-02 至 2016-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8841623
• 关键词: AIDS/HIV problem; ARHGEF5 gene; Address; Affect; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; American Indian and Alaska Native; Award; Behavioral; Behavioral Research; Cardiovascular Diseases; Clinical Skills; Communities; Development; Diabetes Mellitus; Education; Educational Curriculum; Environment; Funding; Grant; Health; Indigenous; Individual; International; Mental Health; Mental disorders; Mission; Modeling; Morale; Obesity; Outcome; Plant Roots; Program Development; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Institute; Research Personnel; Research Training; Resources; Risk Factors; Schools; Science; Scientist; Secure; Social Work; Stress and Coping; Substance abuse problem; Training Activity; United States National Institutes of Health; Violence; Work; design; health disparity; improved; innovation; novel; outreach; physical conditioning; psychological distress; response; success; tribal community; tribal organization

The UW's Indigenous Wellness Research Institute (IWRI) has successfully pursued its mission to address American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) health and eliminate health disparities by developing a trans-disciplinary research infrastructure, cultivating extensive partnerships with leading national and international tribal communities and organizations, and securing $14 million in research and training awards over its initial five years. The UW and School of Social Work have provided fertile ground for IWRI development and have pledged considerable additional institutional and administrative support. This application, in response to RFA-MD-11-003 "NIMHD Comprehensive Centers of Excellence (P60)" is designed to develop IWRI as a National Comprehensive Center of Excellence (COE) devoted to AIAN health and health disparities research and to develop a cadre of NIH-funded AIAN behavioral scientists. It provides an excellent opportunity for IWRI to consolidate its burgeoning infrastructure and strengthen existing partners into a vibrant, synergistic, collaborative whole. IWRI's thematic focus is on behaviorally rooted health conditions that disproportionately affect AIANS (e.g., cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, and mental illness) and is grounded in the theoretical and empirical work of IWRI's eminent leaders, who have been awarded numerous NIH grants on AIAN health-related projects over the last two decades and, along with the extensive network of IWRI investigators and community partners, have been at the forefront of AIAN behavioral research. Their innovative work emphasizes the importance of historical context in addressing AIAN health needs, as well as the co-occurring factors of violence, substance use, and psychological distress that affect health. These risk factors are conceptualized in the Director's ground-breaking Indigenist Stress-Coping Model, which will be used to guide curriculum and program development. Consistent with the four main objectives of NIMHD Centers, the proposed aims of IWRI are to Improve AIAN health and eliminate health disparities by: (1) developing an integrated, comprehensive, and centralized trans-disciplinary research infrastructure that builds on the successes of IWRI's research, training activities, and community capacity building; (2) cultivating existing and establishing novel partnerships with AIAN tribal communities and other organizations to facilitate truly collaborative research; (3) developing new and enhancing existing research training activities at IWRI that prepare researchers to conduct scientifically rigorous and culturally grounded health research; and (4) strengthening and consolidating AIAN engagement, outreach and institutional partnerships.

华盛顿大学的土著健康研究所（IWRI）通过发展跨学科的研究基础设施，与领先的国家和国际部落社区和组织建立广泛的伙伴关系，并在最初的五年里获得了1400万美元的研究和培训奖励，成功地实现了解决美洲印第安人和阿拉斯加原住民（AIAN）健康问题和消除健康差距的使命。西澳大学和社会工作学院为IWRI的发展提供了肥沃的土壤，并承诺提供相当多的额外制度和行政支持。这项申请是对RFA-MD-11-003“NIMHD综合卓越中心（P60）”的回应，旨在将IWRI发展成为一个致力于亚洲健康和健康差异研究的国家综合卓越中心（COE），并培养一批由美国国立卫生研究院资助的亚洲行为科学家。这为IWRI巩固其蓬勃发展的基础设施和加强现有合作伙伴成为一个充满活力、协同合作的整体提供了一个极好的机会。IWRI的主题重点是对AIANS造成不成比例影响的行为根源的健康状况（例如，心血管疾病、肥胖、糖尿病、艾滋病毒/艾滋病、药物滥用和精神疾病），并以IWRI杰出领导人的理论和实证工作为基础，他们在过去二十年中因AIAN健康相关项目获得了许多美国国立卫生研究院的资助，并与IWRI调查人员和社区伙伴组成了广泛的网络。一直走在人工智能行为研究的前沿。他们的创新工作强调了历史背景在解决亚洲卫生需求方面的重要性，以及影响健康的暴力、药物使用和心理困扰等共同发生的因素。这些风险因素在主任开创性的土著压力应对模型中被概念化，该模型将用于指导课程和项目的开发。与NIMHD中心的四个主要目标相一致，IWRI的拟议目标是通过：(1)在IWRI的研究、培训活动和社区能力建设的成功基础上，发展一个综合、全面和集中的跨学科研究基础设施，改善AIAN的健康状况并消除健康差距；(2)与AIAN部落社区和其他组织培养现有的伙伴关系，并建立新的伙伴关系，以促进真正的合作研究；(3)在IWRI开展新的和加强现有的研究培训活动，使研究人员能够进行科学严谨和有文化基础的卫生研究；(4)加强和巩固东盟的参与、外联和机构伙伴关系。