Annual NIH Tribal Advisory Committee (TAC) Meeting | DPCPSI

Annual NIH Tribal Advisory Committee (TAC) Meeting

August 16-17, 2023

NIH Campus
Building 31C, Sixth Floor, Rooms F&G 31 Center Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892

Watch the recorded meeting:
Day 1: August 16, 2023, https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=49704
Day 2: August 17, 2023, https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=49706

AGENDA

Day 1
Schedule	Topic	Presenter/Facilitator
9:00 a.m.	Tribal Caucus #1	Delegates and Technical Advisors Only
9:45 a.m.	Invocation Blessing and Land Acknowledgement Cultural Drumming	Kyle Swann (Piscataway Conoy Tribe) Lance Fisher (Northern Cheyenne Tribe)
10:00 a.m.	Introductions, Welcome, and Business Roll Call and Introductions Meeting Procedures Review of Agenda Discuss Meeting Goals	Herminia Frias, M.P.H. (Pascua Yaqui Tribe) TAC Chairperson Karina Walters, Ph.D. (Choctaw Nation) Director, Tribal Health Research Office, NIH Robert W. Eisinger, Ph.D. Acting Director, Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives, NIH
10:35 a.m.	THRO Highlights	Karina Walters, Ph.D. (Choctaw Nation) Director, Tribal Health Research Office, NIH
11:25 a.m.	Break
11:40 a.m.	Overview of the HEAL Initiative, Native Collective Research Effort to Enhance Wellness Program: Addressing Overdose, Substance Use, Mental Health, and Pain	Kathy Etz, Ph.D. Director, Native American Program and Program Director, Epidemiology, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), NIH
12:15 p.m.	Lunch
1:15 p.m.	Panel 1: NIH Innovations in Community- Centered Research Perspectives and Experiences from the Research Field in the Development of an Evidence-Based Native Family Intervention: The Family Listening Program Truth, Racial Health, and Transformation: Creating a New Indigenous System for Wabanaki Public Health, Healing, and Wellness Yappalli: Choctaw Road to Health	American Indian and Alaska Native Investigators: Lorenda Belone, Ph.D., M.P.H. (Dine Nation) Professor, College of Population Health, University of New Mexico Lisa Sockabasin, M.S., R.N. (Passamaquoddy Tribe) Co-Chief Executive Officer, Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness Jessie Roberts, M.S., L.P.C. (Choctaw Nation) Choctaw Nation Health Services Authority, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Sandra Stroud (Choctaw Nation) Project Director for the Choctaw Nation Yappalli Project, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
2:45 p.m.	Break
3:00 p.m.	Panel 2: NIH Innovations in Research and Research Training Current Efforts and Innovations in Native Child Development Research and Research Training: The Native Children’s Research Exchange (NCRE) Scholars Program and Conference, the Native WYSE CHOICES Study, and the Tribal Early Childhood Research Center The Process is as Important as the Outcomes Pathways to Wellness and Resilience for Indigenous Youth: A multi-level approach to suicide prevention research across the lifespan	American Indian and Alaska Native Investigators: Michelle Sarche, Ph.D. (Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe) Professor, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center, Colorado School of Public Health, Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health Jessica Saniġaq Ullrich, M.S.W., Ph.D. (Tribal Citizen of Nome Eskimo Community) Assistant Professor, Washington State University, IREACH Program Teresa Brockie, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N. (White Clay “A'aniiinin” Nation, Fort Belknap) Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University
4:15 p.m.	All of Us Research Program Update	Joshua Denny, M.D., M.S. Chief Executive Officer, All of Us Research Program, NIH
4:45 p.m.	Closing Comments and Blessing	Karina Walters, Ph.D. (Choctaw Nation) Director, Tribal Health Research Office, NIH Donna Galbreath (Ahtna Athabascan) TAC Delegate
5:00 p.m.	Adjourn

Day 2
Schedule	Topic	Presenter/Facilitator
9:00 a.m.	Invocation Tour of the NIH Clinical Center Overview of NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood (NHLBI) Intramural Clinical Research Research in the Laboratory of Transplantation Immunotherapy, Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics Branch Social Determinants of Obesity and Cardiovascular Risk Laboratory, Cardiovascular Branch	Alicia C. Mousseau, Ph.D. (Oglala Sioux) TAC Delegate Richard W. Childs, M.D. Clinical Director, and Acting Scientific Director, NHLBI, NIH Lab 1: Richard W. Childs, M.D. Director of Laboratory of Transplantation Immunotherapy, NHLBI, NIH Lab 2: Tiffany Powell-Wiley, M.D., M.P.H. Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator, NHLBI, NIH
11:30 a.m.	TAC Caucus #2 and Working Lunch	Delegates and Technical Advisors Only
1:00 p.m.	Welcome and Call to Order Introductions Recap of Day 1 and Overview of Day 2	Herminia Frias, M.P.H. (Pascua Yaqui Tribe) TAC Chairperson Karina Walters, Ph.D. (Choctaw Nation) Director, Tribal Health Research Office, NIH
1:20 p.m.	Discussion with NIH Leadership	Lawrence A. Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D. Acting Director, NIH Karina Walters, Ph.D. (Choctaw Nation) Director, Tribal Health Research Office, NIH TAC Members
2:05 p.m.	Group Photo	TAC Members and NIH Leadership
2:20 p.m.	Break
2:35 p.m.	NIMHD Initiatives and Discussions	Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, M.D. Director, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), NIH
3:15 p.m.	NIH Innovations in Research and Research Training: Future Directions in Indigenous Health Research	Donald Warne, M.D., M.P.H. (Oglala Lakota) Co-Director, Center for Indigenous Health, Johns Hopkins University
3:45 p.m.	Election of TAC Chairperson and Co-Chairperson	Herminia Frias, M.P.H. (Pascua Yaqui Tribe) TAC Chairperson TAC Members Karina Walters, Ph.D. (Choctaw Nation) Director, Tribal Health Research Office, NIH
4:00 p.m.	Next Steps and Discussion Strategic Plan TAC Priorities Implementation Needs	Karina Walters, Ph.D. (Choctaw Nation) Director, Tribal Health Research Office, NIH Herminia Frias, M.P.H. (Pascua Yaqui Tribe) TAC Chairperson TAC Members
4:45 p.m.	Closing Comments and Blessing	Karina Walters, Ph.D. (Choctaw Nation) Director, Tribal Health Research Office, NIH Stephen Kutz (Cowlitz Indian) TAC Delegate
5:00 p.m.	Adjourn

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