Center for Indigenous Environmental Health Research

 申请人提供的描述)：土著环境健康研究中心(CIEHR)的行政核心(AC)将作为CIEHR所有研究项目和核心活动的纽带，并与公众和政府机构建立联系。咨询委员会将提供管理、财务监督、便利、协调、培训和评估。支持这些活动的组织部分包括一个负责CIEHR业务和整合的管理团队，一个促进与亚利桑那大学(UA)和北亚利桑那大学(NAU)其他相关中心和计划的沟通和协同作用的内部咨询委员会(IAB)，以及一个协助方案评估和规划的外部咨询委员会(EAB)。为了建立可持续的部落环境健康差距研究能力，咨询委员会将在社区参与核心(CEC)和暴露科学核心(ESC)的支持下，与研究项目和试点项目核心(PPC)合作，通过AI/AN学生和部落人员参与CIEHR环境健康研究，挑选和培训早期调查人员和美国印第安人和阿拉斯加土著(AI/AN)社区成员。咨询委员会将制定CIEHR的总体目标和衡量标准，以评估完成这些目标的进展情况，并就CIEHR的影响、意义和未来方向提供新的见解。咨询委员会还将在核心资金之外带头开发新的合作研究项目，在CIEHR方法的基础上，将暴露评估、评估和加强个人和社区复原力的过程以及卫生政策纳入建设AI/AN社区能力的研究中。咨询委员会将利用和整合CIEHR项目、核心、部落和学术伙伴关系，确定、开发和分发可持续人工智能/环境健康差距研究的创新做法。咨询委员会的具体目标包括：1)提供CIEHR的管理、协调和监督；2)提供培训、评估和规划；3)为可持续的环境健康差距研究开发创新做法。预期的AC成果包括提高人工智能/AN社区在环境健康差距研究和卫生政策制定方面的能力。关键组成部分将包括确定与部落有效合作的机制，以便利用暴露评估来解决他们的环境健康问题；学习如何最好地利用部落复原力来减少不利的环境暴露；以及提供如何利用研究支持可持续部落环境办法以改善社区健康的范例。

 DESCRIPTION provided by applicant): The Administrative Core (AC) of the Center for Indigenous Environmental Health Research (CIEHR) will serve as the nexus for all CIEHR Research Project and Core activities and interface with the public and government agencies. The AC will provide management, financial oversight, facilitation, coordination, training and evaluation. Organizational components supporting these activities include a Management Team addressing CIEHR business and integration, an Internal Advisory Board (IAB) fostering communication and synergy with other related University of Arizona (UA) and Northern Arizona University (NAU) Centers and Programs, and an External Advisory Board (EAB) assisting in programmatic evaluation and planning. To build sustainable tribal environmental health disparities research capacity, the AC will select and train early stage investigators and American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) community members through involvement of AI/AN students and tribal personnel in CIEHR environmental health research, supported by the Community Engagement Core (CEC) and Exposure Science Core (ESC), in collaboration with the Research Projects and the Pilot Projects Core (PPC). The AC will set overall CIEHR objectives and metrics to evaluate progress towards their completion and provide new insights as to the impact, meaning, and future direction of CIEHR. The AC will also spearhead the development of new collaborative research projects beyond the core funding, building on the CIEHR approach of incorporating exposure assessment, processes to evaluate and strengthen individual and community resilience, and health policy into research that builds AI/AN community capacity. Leveraging and integrating CIEHR projects, cores, tribal and academic partnerships, the AC will identify, develop and distribute innovative practices for sustainable AI/AN environmental health disparities research. Specific aims of the AC include: 1) Provide CIEHR administration, coordination and oversight; 2) Provide training, evaluation and planning; and 3) Develop innovative practices for sustainable environmental health disparities research. Anticipated AC outcomes include increased AI/AN community capacity for environmental health disparities research and health policy development. Key components will include identifying mechanisms for effectively partnering with tribes to use exposure assessment to address their environmental health concerns, learning how to best engage tribal resilience to mitigate adverse environmental exposures, and providing exemplars of how to use research to support sustainable tribal environmental approaches for improving community health.