American Indian and Alaska Native Programs
American Indian and Alaska Native Programs Join the Colorado School of Public Health (CSPH)
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American Indian and Alaska Native Programs (AIANP) at the University of Colorado Denver will formally join the Colorado School of Public Health (CSPH) on January 1, 2009. The integration will move AIANP from the School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry to CSPH. As a result of the move, AIANP faculty will begin teaching, mentoring, and collaborating with other CSPH faculty in public health education and research. Click here for more information. |
Our Mission
The mission of the American Indian and Alaska Native Programs (AIANP) is to promote the health and well-being of American Indians and Alaska Natives, of all ages, by pursuing research, training, continuing education, technical assistance, and information dissemination within a biopsychosocial framework that recognizes the unique cultural contexts of this special population.
Accepting Applications!
The Native Telehealth Outreach & Technical Assistance Program (NTOTAP) is now accepting applications! NTOTAP provides a venue for Native Health Organizations to develop prevention and intervention multimedia projects that focus on high priority local health concerns.
Ongoing Programs
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Center of Excellence in Eliminating Health Disparities is a new program that seeks to provide assistance to community-driven SDPI grantees with program implementation and organizational performance improvement efforts by promoting promising practices that have been discovered through a review of the SDPI demonstration programs. |
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The Center for Native American
Telehealth and Tele-education (CNATT) houses
a national program that employs state-of-the-art telecommunication
technologies to address high priority health-related service, education,
and research needs of American Indian and Alaska Native communities. |
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The Center on Native Elder
Health Disparities (CNEHD) is a 5-year, program project
grant funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research on Quality. The
work of the center is organized in terms of 4 core components and
3 research projects related to the health and well-being of American
Indian and Alaska Native elders. Click here for more information. |
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The Circles of Care initiative provides funding to plan, design,
and assess the feasibility of implementing a culturally appropriate
mental health service model for American Indian/Alaska Native children
with Serious Emotional/Behavioral Disturbances and their families. This
program is funded by the Federal Center for Mental Health Services
(CMHS, part of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration). |
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Project EXPORT, funded by the National Center for Minority Health
and Health Disparities, plans, promotes and carries out high quality,
interdisciplinary, culturally grounded, problem-oriented research of
major scientific and programmatic importance to the health status and
functioning of American Indians and Alaska Natives. |
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The American Indian and Alaska Native Head Start Research Center (AIANHSRC) is a 3-year program grant funded by the Administration for Children and Families’ Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation. |
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The National Center
for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research (NCAIANMHR) is
sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health and is the
only program of this type in the country focusing specifically
on American Indian and Alaska Native populations. It conducts research
in the assessment, epidemiology, treatment, and prevention of mental
illness. NCAIANMHR publishes an online journal, American Indian and Alaska
Native Mental Health Research: The Journal of the National Center.
The journal publishes a variety of articles related to the mental health
status of American Indians and Alaska Natives. Click
here to view online issues. We welcome manuscript submissions! |
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Native Elder Research Center (NERC)/Resource
Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR), a 10-year effort
funded by the National Institute on Aging, focuses on Native elder
health. Native elders are at greater risk for numerous acute as well
as chronic illnesses. In addition, they have less access to needed
services. To better address these disparities, NERC trains American
Indian/Alaska Native PhD's and MD's to conduct research on these and
related topics. |
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The Special Diabetes Program for Indians - Demonstrations Projects (formerly known as the “Competitive Grant Program”) Coordinating Center is the hub of a 5-year program grant funded by the Indian Health Service Division of Diabetes Treatment and Prevention. |
Past Programs
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The Healthy Nations Initiative was
funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to help Native Americans
reduce the harm caused by substance abuse in their communities. The
goal of the initiative was to demonstrate that tribes and communities
can, over time, achieve substantial reductions in the demand for --
and consequently the use of -- alcohol and other harmful substances,
including tobacco and illegal drugs. |
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The Native Elder Health
Care Resource Center (NEHCRC), was a national
resource center for older American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native
Hawaiians, with special emphasis on culturally competent health care. |
