BCC-CCM Student and Faculty Career Development Project

该项目的最终目标是改善黑脚族的心理和身体健康，并 通过发展可持续发展的黑脚社区大学中心来解决我们的健康问题 作为医学的文化(BCC-CCM)。黑脚人和其他土著人民经历着严重的健康 可以说，解决这些差异的最有资格的个人是土著研究人员。 然而，具有卫生研究专业知识的土著研究人员非常少，可持续健康也很少。 原住民社区内由社区控制的研究中心。黑脚族社区 已经表示，它的主要健康问题之一是精神健康，它还表示希望 社区成员自己解决这个问题。因此，这个名为BCC的能力建设项目- 学生和教师研究开发(BCC-SFRD)，将增强BCC开发 BCC-CCM将努力减轻黑脚族心理健康疾病的高发病率 人口。利用前一笔NARCH能力建设赠款启动的工作，BCC已开始 建立一种研究文化，产生了两份科学出版物(1，2)，一个学生研究实验室 能够进行生物标志物和调查分析，并受到BCC教职员工和管理人员的强烈兴趣 BlackFeet社区来开发此应用程序。本项目将利用进度、兴趣、 以及从上一次国家资源规划赠款中产生的初步数据，以建立必要的人力资源 研究中心，包括教职员工和学生研究人员，以及使该中心 可持续发展。同样重要的是让BlackFoot社区参与开发的所有阶段和 拟建中心的职能。为实现能力建设目标，我们将完成 具体目标如下：1.加强北京研发中心的研究文化；2.鼓励和支持北京研发中心 学生追求生物医学研究事业，以及3.发展可持续的BCC心理健康 密歇根大学研究中心。以前的国家发改委资金只侧重于能力建设，但有很大的 对BCC的影响，使我们能够制定本提案。因此，这一建议利用并扩展了 以前的成功案例。我们预计，如果这项提议得到资助，将产生更大的影响，推动BCC 我们的目标是增强黑脚的心理健康，发展可持续的BCC-CCM。

The ultimate goal of this project is to improve the mental and physical health of the Blackfeet Nation and to address our health problems through the development of a sustainable Blackfeet Community College Center for Culture as Medicine (BCC-CCM). The Blackfeet and other Native peoples experience severe heath disparities, and, arguably, the best qualified individuals to address these disparities are Native researchers. However, there are precious few Native investigators with health research expertise and few sustainable health research centers within Native communities that are controlled by the community. The Blackfeet community has indicated that one of its primary health concerns is mental health, and it also has indicated the desire for community members to address this problem themselves. Thus, this capacity building project, entitled BCC- Student and Faculty Research Development (BCC-SFRD), will enhance the capacity of BCC to develop the BCC-CCM that will strive to mitigate the high incidence of mental health disease among the Blackfeet population. Leveraging the work initiated with a previous NARCH capacity building grant, BCC has begun to build a research culture that has resulted in two scientific publications (1,2), a student research laboratory capable of biomarker and survey analysis, and an intense interest among BCC faculty and administration and the Blackfeet community to develop this application. The present project will leverage the progress, interest, and preliminary data generated from the previous NARCH grant to build the human resources necessary for the research center, including faculty and student researchers, as well as the means to make the center sustainable. It also will be important to involve the Blackfeet community in all phases of the development and function of the proposed center. In order to attain the goal of capacity building, we will accomplish the following specific aims: 1. strengthen the research culture at BCC, 2. encourage and empower BCC students to pursue biomedical research careers, and 3. develop a sustainable BCC Mental Health Research Center at BCC. Previous NARCH funding focused only on capacity building but had significant impact at BCC, positioning us to develop the present proposal. Thus, this proposal leverages and expands previous successes. We expect that this proposal, if funded, would have even more impact, propelling BCC to our goal of enhancing Blackfeet mental health and developing a sustainable BCC-CCM.