RESEARCH TRAINING/EDUCATION CORE

美国印第安人和阿拉斯加原住民健康差异中心（CAIANHD; P60 MD000507）的续期申请按4个核心进行组织：行政核心、研究核心、研究培训和教育（RT/E）核心以及社区参与和外联（CE/O）核心。Spero M. Manson博士（Pembina Chippewa），公共卫生和精神病学杰出教授，领导RT/E核心。曼森博士共同指导本土调查员发展计划（NIDP），并带来了丰富的经验，以承担这一特殊的核心。事实上，他曾两次获得美国老年学学会的杰出导师奖（2006年；2007年）和美国医学院协会颁发的赫伯特·w·尼肯斯奖（2006年），以表彰他对美国印第安人和阿拉斯加原住民（AI/AN）调查员的培训。南希·怀特塞尔博士，副教授，发展心理学家和统计学家，在土著社区有丰富的实地经验，也是RT/E核心的成员。怀特塞尔博士与比尔斯博士共同指导了传播、目标和教育研究基础设施建设（BRIDGE）项目，这是一个由美国国立卫生研究院资助的CAIANH和奥格拉拉·拉科塔国家卫生管理局（OSTHA）之间的独特合作伙伴关系，旨在为部落内部的研究培训和传播创造更有效的机制。RT/E核心包含两项相互关联的工作，重点是促进部落学院和大学（TC/ u） AI/AN本科生的健康差异研究能力，以及提高AI/AN医学博士/博士的能力。进行高质量的、由美国国立卫生研究院支持的健康差异研究。

This renewal application for the Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Health Disparities (CAIANHD; P60 MD000507) is organized in terms of 4 Cores: an Administrative Core, a Research Core, a Research Training and Education (RT/E) Core, and a Community Engagement and Outreach (CE/O) Core. Spero M. Manson, Ph.D. (Pembina Chippewa), Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Psychiatry, leads the RT/E Core. Dr. Manson co-directs the Native Investigator Development Program (NIDP), and brings a wealth of experience to bear on this particular core. Indeed, he twice received the Gerontological Society of America's Distinguished Mentor Award (2006; 2007) and the Herbert W. Nickens Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges (2006) for his, training of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) investigators. Nancy Whitesell, Ph.D., Associate Professor, a developmental psychologist and statistician with extensive field experience in Native communities, also is a member of the RT/E Core. Dr. Whitesell codirects with Dr. Beals the Building Research Infrastructure for Dissemination, Goals, and Education (BRIDGE) Project, a unique, NIH-funded partnership between CAIANH and the Oglala Lakota Nation Health Administration (OSTHA) to create more effective mechanisms for research training and dissemination within the tribe. The RT/E Core houses 2 interrelated efforts that focus on promoting health disparities research capabilities among AI/AN undergraduate students at tribal colleges and universities (TC/Us) and on increasing the capacity of AI/AN MD/Ph.D.s to conduct high-quality, NIH-supported health disparities research. Few studies of the health of AI/AN people in the U.S. have been conducted by AI/AN researchers.[1] In our ongoing effort to redress this imbalance, the overarching purpose of the RT/E Core is as follows: a) increase the number of AI/AN researchers engaged in high-quality health disparities research in this special population, and b) enhance the ability of AI/AN scientists to compete successfully for externally sponsored health disparities research. We will accomplish this by capitalizing on our prior work over the last 5 years through the CAIANHD in 2 ways. First, we propose to expand our support of and involvement in the Dine College Summer Research Enhancement Program (SREP), a 10-week summer enrichment training program in public health research methods for AI/AN undergraduate students. This program, offered in collaboration with the country's oldest and largest TC/U and housed on the Navajo Nation, introduces AI/AN students to the research process and to health professions, providing them a foundation for basic public health research and evaluation. The SREP integrates concepts of holism, balance/harmony, kinship, and relatedness�values shared by AI/AN people generally and these students in particular�with state-of-the-art scientific methods. As we shall show, this initiative has been remarkably successful: It has attracted 48 AI/AN undergraduate students to health disparities research and led many of them to pursue advanced studies in related areas at other institutions across the country. During the proposed period of renewal, we will expand the program's research foci and replicate it at Oglala Lakota College, another TC/U located on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Second, we intend to renew the Health Disparities Research Scholar effort, which trains and mentors promising new AI/AN scientists. This objective will be accomplished by continuing to augment our unique Native Investigator Development Program (NIDP) to enable it to address a broader array of research areas than permitted by its primary sponsor, the National Institute on Aging (NIA). This 2-year, collaborative, multidisciplinary program identifies potential AI/AN investigators and facilitates their comprehensive, systematic preparation for research careers. As a collaboration between UCD and the University of Washington (UW), the NIDP has been continuously funded since 1998 by NIA, as well as by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Human Genome Research Institute, the National Cancer Institute, and NIMHD. It, too, has been highly successful, having trained 42 AI/AN social, behavioral, and health scientists known as Native Investigators (NIs),[2*a] who have acquired more than $90 million in NIH research funding and published almost 300 peer-reviewed journal articles.