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Last Reviewed: May 13,2010
Last Updated: May 13, 2010
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OSTLTS Cooperative Agreements
American Indian/Alaska Native Populations
Please Note: While OMHD will continue to oversee the Inter-Agency
Agreements supporting the American Indian/Alaska Native populations; the OD's two Senior Tribal Liaisons
are moving from OMHD
to the new CDC Office of State, Tribal, Local, & Territorial Support
(OSTLTS). As part of this move they will retain
oversight and Project Officer responsibilities for the 2 Cooperative
Agreements supporting the American Indian/Alaska Native populations
under OSTLTS.
See below for information on OSTLTS Cooperative Agreements
and visit the
OSTLTS website directly at http://www.cdc.gov/ostlts/ for more information.
Cooperative
Agreements
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National Indian Health Board (NIHB)
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The NIHB, a non-profit national American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN)
organization based in Washington, DC, conducts policy analysis, program
assessment and development, national and regional meeting planning, training and
technical assistance programs, and project management. The NIHB advocates on
behalf of all 569 federally-recognized Tribes in the development of national
Indian health policy. They present the tribal perspective while monitoring
federal legislation and opens opportunities to other national health care
organizations to network and engage their support on Indian health care issues.
The NIHB provides a vehicle to keep the flow of health care information in front
of policy makers and tribal governments manifesting progress in health care and
strengthening tribal sovereignty. NIHB utilizes the Area Health Boards to
assist CDC in a communication link between the CDC the tribes. Area Health
Boards and their constituent tribes provide advise to CDC on health policy,
planning, and program design. |
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This NIHB agreement provides a venue to increase collaboration among public
health partners at national, region, state, tribal and local levels; ensure that
AI/AN communities are equally protected from infectious, occupational,
environmental and terrorists threats; and influence the public health workforce
pipeline to ensure that more Native students enter public health schools and
related careers. |
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NIHB principal goals are: |
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Support the collaboration of the NIHB and its established infrastructure of Area
health Board with the CDC and its established Tribal Consultation Advisory
Committee (TCAC) |
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Strengthening Public Health System Connectivity |
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Identify and Develop Culturally-Appropriate Approaches to Reduce Disease Burden |
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Strengthen AI/AN Public Health Systems Capacity. |
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Project Period: |
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Four Years |
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Learn more about the Organization NIHB |
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Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board (NPAIHB)
Tribal EpiCenter Consortium (TECC)
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The lead agency for this project is the Northwest Tribal Epidemiology Center (NTEC)
(located at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board) which serves 43
federally recognized tribes in Idaho, Oregon and Washington, approximately
272,000 AI/ANs. The two consortium partners are the Southern Plains
Inter-Tribal Epidemiology Center (SPIEC), located at the Oklahoma City Area
Inter-Tribal Health Board, that serves 4 federally recognized tribes in Kansas,
38 in Oklahoma, 1 tribe in Texas, and 4 Urban Indian Health Centers, some
654,911 AI/ANs and the California Tribal Epidemiology Collaborative (CTEC), a
partnership of the California Rural Indian Health Board, Inc., the Indian Health
Council, and the Riverside San Bernardino County Indian Health, Inc. Together,
these organizations serve four DHHS regions (Regions VI, VII, IX and X). The
EpiCenter Consortium model establishes a number of mechanisms for ongoing
consultation with constituent tribes and a list of joint projects, allowing each
EpiCenter to benefit from the experience and expertise of the others. The
EpiCenters are ideally situated to work locally and be responsive to the needs
and sensitivities of tribal communities while cultivating close collaborative
relationships with state and federal agencies and academic departments. |
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The short term goal for the TECC is to share the tools and experience of
existing and prior data collection projects and interventions in Indian Country
to increase the cultural competence, effectiveness, and penetration of injury
prevention programs in all three areas. Long term goals is to use this
collaboration model to establish a National Network of 11 Tribal EpiCenters
serving all regions of Indian Country, maximizing resources and experience and
further building of tribal Epi capacity with community based participatory
methods. |
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NPAIHB principal goals are: |
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Continue the formal interregional collaboration of three tribal
epidemiology centers. |
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Increase the integration of EpiCenters into the data collection systems
and public health resources that already exist among their constituent
tribes through analysis of the tribal capacity assessment. |
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Increase the standardization of data analysis among the three regions to
allow better comparability of AI/AN health data across regions on a
national level. |
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Increase the capacity of EpiCenters to assist their constituent tribes or
tribal consortia in using epidemiologic data in a locally-determined and
culturally relevant way to effect policy changes in their communities. |
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Promote the sustainability of the EpiCenter system and maintain the
personnel infrastructure at each EpiCenter to support a steady funding
stream and to ensure that the services offered to tribes remains
consistently available. |
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Project Period: |
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Four Years |
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