Regional Native American Community Networks Program (RNACNP)

华盛顿大学（UW）和美国印第安人健康黑山中心（BHCAIH）寻求支持土著人民癌症控制（NPCC），这是一个目前资助的区域社区网络计划（CNP）。 NPCC被组织成一个行政核心和社区推广，研究和培训计划。 NPCC的董事将由Dedra Buchwald，医学博士，医学教授和主任，土著健康伙伴关系，华盛顿大学;和杰弗里亨德森（夏延河苏），医学博士，公共卫生硕士，总裁兼首席执行官的社区为基础的，非营利性BHCAIH在拉皮德城，SD共享。NPCC服务于8个州的地区，总部设在西雅图的UW，另有3个地点在地理上与我们的行为保持一致。 社区外展方案活动。地点1包括华盛顿、阿拉斯加和俄勒冈州;地点2包括爱达荷州、蒙大拿州和怀俄明州;地点3包括北达科他州和南达科他州。NPCC将包括15名美国印第安人/阿拉斯加原住民（AI/AN）调查员，工作人员和合作伙伴。 AI/AN在所有美国种族/族裔群体中的所有癌症中的5年生存率最低（12），并且很难进入癌症临床试验。因此，我们的总体目标是直接为改善AI/AN人群的癌症健康结果和生活质量做出贡献，这些人群经历了严重的健康不平等。 我们的中心战略是利用机会和利用现有资源，追求一个综合的，多方面的研究计划，这是由与原住民社区紧密的伙伴关系催化。我们将解决癌症健康问题，从预防和临床试验到生存。我们的长期目标是产生可以转化为实践和政策的发现，以减少AI/AN癌症相关的健康差异。因此，我们的具体目标是：1）通过社区外展计划的活动，在城市和农村的AI/AN中增加癌症教育，外展，健康促进和预防工作; 2）开展1个研究项目，2个CNP试点项目和2个培训项目，采用基于社区的参与性方法，重点关注结直肠癌筛查，健康知识和沟通，癌症风险因素和护理，3）通过培训计划的努力，培训至少5名AI/AN初级教员进行研究;以及4）通过所有NPCC活动，通过增加AI/AN人群中干预措施的获得和使用，减少癌症健康差异。这些活动将由行政核心协调。NPPC拥有广泛的合作伙伴网络，25个与癌症相关的赠款和54个NPCC附属研究人员的出版物，无论是作为一个单独的网站还是作为CNP网络的成员，NPPC都拥有成功的CNP的基本要素。

University of Washington (UW) and Black Hills Center for American Indian Health (BHCAIH) seek support for Native People for Cancer Control (NPCC), a currently-funded regional Community Networks Program (CNP). NPCC is organized into an Administrative Core and Community Outreach, Research, and Training Programs. Directorship of NPCC will be shared by Dedra Buchwald, MD, Professor of Medicine and Director, Partnerships for Native Health, UW; and Jeffrey Henderson (Cheyenne River Sioux), MD, MPH, President and CEO of the community-based, non-profit BHCAIH in Rapid City, SD. NPCC serves an 8-state region and is headquartered at UW in Seattle, with 3 additional sites that align geographically with the conduct of our Community Outreach Program activities. Site 1 includes Washington, Alaska, and Oregon; Site 2 includes Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming; and Site 3 includes North and South Dakota. NPCC will include 15 American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) investigators, staff, and partners. AI/ANs have the poorest 5-year survival from all cancers combined among all U.S. racial/ethnic groups,(12) and access to cancer clinical trials is difficult. Our overarching aim, therefore, is to directly contribute to improved cancer health outcomes and quality of life for AI/AN populations, which experience dramatic health inequities. Our central strategy is to capitalize on opportunities and leverage existing resources to pursue an integrated, multifaceted research program that is catalyzed by tight partnerships with Native communities. We will address cancer health issues ranging from prevention and clinical trials to survivorship. Our long-term goal is to generate findings that can be translated into practices and policies that will reduce AI/AN cancer-related health disparities. Thus, our Specific Aims are to: 1) increase cancer education, outreach, health promotion, and prevention efforts among urban and rural AI/ANs through the activities of the Community Outreach Program; 2) conduct 1 Research Project, 2 CNP Pilot Projects, and 2 Training Projects using community-based participatory methods that focus on colorectal cancer screening, health literacy and communication, cancer risk factors and care, and clinical trials education among Al/ANs; 3) train at least 5 AI/AN junior faculty members to conduct research through the efforts of the Training Program; and 4) reduce cancer health disparities by increasing access to, and use of, interventions among AI/AN populations through all NPCC activities. These activities will be coordinated by the Administrative Core. With a wide network of partners, 25 funded cancer-related grants and 54 publications by NPCC-affiliated investigators, NPPC has the essential elements of a successful CNP, both as an individual site and as a member of the CNP network.