Advancing Research

CENTER FOR INDIGENOUS HEALTH RESEARCH AND POLICY

In August 2021, the Center for Indigenous Health Research and Policy (CIHRP) was awarded a five-year $3.5 million Tribal Community Supported Agriculture Grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities.

CIHRP, the Osage Nation and the National Congress of American Indians are studying new community supported agriculture programs in the Osage Nation, and if successful, will compile a web-based toolkit for other indigenous communities to use to improve Native food systems.

CIHRP was also awarded a two-year $2 million grant from the Department of Health and Human Services that focuses on American Indian and Alaska Natives in September of 2021.

CIHRP is working with several partners including: the Osage Nation; Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; the Southcentral Foundation in Anchorage, Alaska; the Center for Alaska Native Health Research at the University of Alaska Fairbanks; and the National Congress of American Indians to develop the Center for Indigenous Innovation and Health Equity (CIIHE).

CIHRP also launched a local study with Camp Sevenstar at the Cherokee Nation. This initiative, the Traditional Foods and Medicine Garden, was co-developed by CIHRP and the American Indian