2/2 Cherokee Nation/Stephenson Cancer Center Collaborative on Cancer Disparities

总结 合格的调查人员有能力和动力去研究美洲印第安人的癌症差异， 供应不足。解决研究人员缺乏问题的努力通常集中在新的研究人员身上， 通常令人印象深刻的产量，例如，科罗拉多大学和华盛顿大学的本土研究者项目。 但是，除非我们激发美国印第安学生对生物医学和行为研究的兴趣， 对于部落国家的工作来说，美国印第安人调查员总是太少了。我们的培训和 教育计划旨在利用已经阐明的令人印象深刻的工作来支持新的 研究人员在他们的过渡到独立的研究，这与创新的研究生新方案， 和本科生考虑与切罗基民族的职业生涯。 我们有三个具体目标： 1)建立一个学习社区，包括教师，导师，工作人员，新的研究人员，毕业生， 本科生，都在追求研究，以取得进展，烟草相关的癌症 切罗基民族的不平等; 2)实施一个非常成功的导师模式，以支持新的美国印第安人调查员， 俄克拉荷马州向独立研究过渡; 3)建立一个教育和培训计划，研究生和本科生感兴趣的， 为切罗基民族研究癌症健康差异 我们建立该计划的目标是为更广泛的跨机构计划奠定基础， 能够满足切罗基民族未来对劳动力需求的培训和教育 来开始缩小癌症发病率和死亡率之间的差距。

Summary Qualified investigators capable and motivated to pursue research on American Indian cancer disparities are in short supply. Efforts to address this lack of researchers have generally focused on new investigators, with often impressive yields, e.g., the Native Investigator Program at the Universities of Colorado and Washington. But until we stimulate interest in biomedical and behavioral research among American Indian students, there will always be too few American Indian investigators for the work that tribal nations have. Our training and education program seeks to utilize the impressive work that has already been articulated to support new investigators in their transition to independent research, linking this with innovative new programs for graduate and undergraduate students contemplating careers with the Cherokee Nation. We have three specific aims: 1) to establish a learning community, including faculty, mentors, staff, new investigators, graduate, and undergraduate students, all linked in the pursuit of research to make progress on tobacco-related cancer disparities for the Cherokee Nation; 2) to implement a highly successful model for the mentorship to support new American Indian investigators in Oklahoma in making the transition to independent research; 3) to establish an education and training program for graduate and undergraduate students interested in working for the Cherokee Nation on cancer health disparities. Our goal in establishing this program is to lay the groundwork for a broader inter-institutional program in training and education capable of meeting the future needs for the workforce the Cherokee Nation will require to begin to close the gap in cancer morbidity and mortality.