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

摘要 有能力和有动力对美国印第安人癌症差异进行研究的合格调查人员在 供应不足。解决这一缺乏研究人员的努力通常集中在新的调查人员上， 结果往往令人印象深刻，例如科罗拉多大学和华盛顿大学的原住民调查员计划。 但在我们激发美国印度学生对生物医学和行为研究的兴趣之前，那里 对于部落国家的工作来说，美国印第安人调查人员总是太少了。我们的培训和 教育计划寻求利用已经阐明的令人印象深刻的工作来支持新的 向独立研究过渡的研究人员，将其与研究生创新项目联系起来 以及考虑在切诺基民族谋职的本科生。 我们有三个具体目标： 1)建立一个学习社区，包括教职员工、导师、工作人员、新的研究人员、毕业生和 本科生，所有人都在追求研究烟草相关癌症的进展 切罗基民族的不平等； 2)实施非常成功的导师模式，以支持#年新的美国印第安人调查人员 俄克拉荷马州正在向独立研究过渡； 3)为有兴趣的研究生和本科生建立教育和培训计划 为切诺基民族研究癌症健康差距。 我们建立这一计划的目标是为更广泛的机构间计划奠定基础 培训和教育能够满足切罗基国家未来对劳动力的需求 开始缩小癌症发病率和死亡率的差距。

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.