Annual NIH Tribal Advisory Committee (TAC) Meeting

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

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