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Indigenous Wellness Research Institute

Indigenous Wellness Research Institute

The Growing Our Own Project

The Growing Our Own Project

Lead Investigator: Tessa Evans-Campbell, PhD
The overall goals of the Growing Our Own Faculty and Student Development Program are: To bridge pipeline efforts between the only accredited tribal college in the Pacific Northwest and local research-intensive universities to increase the number of American Indians/Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) in health science career tracks and build Community Based Participator Research capacity; 2) to provide navigation of health science and research career mentorship and professional development for AI/AN graduate students, post-graduate, staff, and faculty; 3) To reduce tribal mistrust of research by creating a bi-directional learning environment that promotes co-development of tribal and university partners to work together to reduce health disparities.