The Native Children's Research Exchange Scholars Program: Preparing the Next Generation of American Indian and Alaska Native Substance Abuse and Addition Scientists

项目摘要/摘要 美国印第安人和阿拉斯加原住民(AIAN)面临着一些最严重的药物滥用 美国任何人口的不平等。国家卫生研究院已经加大了努力， 通过投资于研究以了解根本原因和专注于以下方面的研究来解决这些不平等 在这些人群中进行预防和干预。其他努力包括建立部落 2015年在美国国立卫生研究院的卫生研究办公室，并启动了旨在改善土著居民的干预研究 2012年的美国健康倡议。虽然收益正在取得，但它们是增量的，许多人放慢了速度 在对不同的AIAN人群进行研究时遇到的复杂性。一项持续减弱的挑战 NIH努力的有效性在于AIAN负责研究的调查人员代表性不足 学习。AIAN首席调查员的队伍正在增加，但AIAN首席调查员的人数仍然很多 代表人数不足。虽然有一些训练有素的非原住民PI与AIAN密切合作 社区，使用有效的以社区为基础的参与性研究方法来提高科学严谨性 在这些背景下，这些研究充分整合科学和文化的潜力 整个研究设计、测量、分析、解释和传播的知识被破坏 由于AIAN领导层的缺乏。该项目旨在建立和扩大成功的原住民 支持AIAN早期职业发展的儿童研究交流学者(NCRE)计划 药物滥用研究人员。NCRE学者于2012年在NCRE网络的基础上开始 研究人员对AIAN的儿童和青少年进行了研究。NCRE网络提供了一个平台 用于将研究生、博士后和初级教职员工与高级研究导师联系起来 实质性的辅导和职业发展支持。由该网络参加的NCRE会议提供 一个分享信息和进一步建立协作关系的论坛。拟议的项目将 通过以下方式支持AIAN下一代药物滥用和成瘾科学家的发展：(1) 维持NCRE奖学金计划，在5个队列中支持额外的10名学者，每个队列2名学者；(2) 保留成功的NCRE奖学金计划的基本组成部分，继续提供 通过创建和建立与NCRE网络有关的少数学者队列，提供密集的指导 实施量身定做的职业发展计划并支持制定目标；(3)扩大 NCRE学者在学者顾问委员会的指导下和通过制定 授课研讨会将与NCRE会议和#年的结构化课程一起举办 与AIAN社区进行负责任的研究；以及(4)整合一个小型NCRE学生 与NCRE学者计划的指导工作，以加强潜在研究人员的参与 教育渠道(NCRE STARS计划；学生思考研究职业)。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) populations face some of the most significant substance abuse inequities of any population in the United States. The National Institutes of Health has increased efforts to address these inequities through investing in research to understand the root causes and in studies focused on prevention and intervention in these populations. Additional efforts include the establishment of the Tribal Health Research Office at the NIH in 2015 and the launch of the Intervention Research to Improve Native American Health Initiative in 2012. While gains are being made, they are incremental, slowed by many complexities encountered in research with diverse AIAN populations. A challenge that continues to attenuate the effectiveness of NIH's efforts is the underrepresentation of AIAN investigators at the helm of research studies. The cadre of AIAN Principal Investigators (PIs) is growing, but AIAN PIs remain significantly underrepresented. While there are a number of well-trained non-Native PIs who work closely with AIAN communities, using effective Community-Based Participatory Research approaches to enhance scientific rigor and relevance in these contexts, the potential of these studies to fully integrate scientific and cultural knowledge throughout study design, measurement, analysis, interpretation and dissemination is undermined by the lack of AIAN leadership. This project is designed to build on and expand the successful Native Children's Research Exchange Scholars (NCRE) program to support the development of AIAN early career substance abuse researchers. NCRE Scholars began in 2012 on the foundation of the NCRE network of researchers engaged in research with AIAN children and adolescents. The NCRE network provides a platform for connecting graduate students, post-docs, and junior faculty to senior research mentors who provide substantive mentoring and career development support. The NCRE conferences attended by this network offer a forum for sharing information and further building collaborative relationships. The proposed project will support the development of the next generation of AIAN substance abuse and addiction scientists by: (1) sustaining the NCRE Scholars program to support 10 additional Scholars in 5 Cohorts of 2 Scholars each; (2) retaining the fundamental components of the successful NCRE Scholars program, continuing to provide intensive mentoring to small cohorts of Scholars in connection to the NCRE network through the creation and implementation of Tailored Career Development Plans and support of writing objectives; (3) expanding the experiences for NCRE Scholars with the guidance of a Scholars Advisory board and by developing a Grantwriting Workshop to be delivered in conjunction with NCRE Conferences and a structured curriculum in the Responsible Conduct of Research with AIAN Communities; and (4) integrating a small NCRE student mentoring effort with the NCRE Scholars program to enhance engagement of potential researchers earlier in the educational pipeline (NCRE stars program; Students Thinking About Research careerS).