Jani Ingram
Northern Arizona University, AZ·Public Health & Epidemiology
American Indian and Alaska Native communities carry a heavy and unequal cancer burden: high rates of many cancers, diagnoses that come at later stages, worse outcomes afterward, and low survival. Closing that gap requires both research that reflects community priorities and a workforce of researchers who come from and work with those communities.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Education Research
Medicine & Clinical Research
- Topics
cancer disparities
cancer prevention
American Indian Alaska Native
- Grants
- 2 known grants, through Aug 2029
What they work on
- Engage in bidirectional communication with American Indian and Alaska Native community partners, grounded in mutual exchange of perspectives, to set research priorities and promote best practices for cancer health.
- Grow the pipeline of cancer-focused researchers and health care professionals through training programs tailored separately to high school students, undergraduates, graduate students, and junior and early-stage investigators.
- Conduct cancer research informed by the priorities and concerns of both rural and urban American Indian and Alaska Native communities in Arizona.
- Increase submission of cancer research grants and manuscripts by early-stage and junior investigators by matching them with mentors who can guide a path toward research on Native cancer health outcomes.
- Provide workshops and analytical infrastructure that strengthen the data analysis supporting participants' cancer research projects.
- Support career development using a mapping strategy that reserves protected blocks of time for teaching, grant writing and publication, and assist investigators with the promotion and tenure process.
More about the research
Two linked efforts pursue this: a long-running partnership that conducts community-informed cancer research and builds the training pipeline, and a shared resource within it dedicated to launching the careers of new investigators.
Why it matters
American Indian and Alaska Native populations face high cancer rates, late-stage diagnoses and poor survival. This partnership aims to reduce that burden in Arizona through research shaped directly by rural and urban community priorities, and by increasing the number of investigators working on Native cancer health. Its training programs, spanning high school through early faculty, could sustainably expand the research workforce addressing these disparities.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Amanda Hunter
Arizona State University Campus Immersion, AZ·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
Identify the core elements of Native Spirit, a 13-session culturally grounded after-school program led by traditional knowledge holders for American Indian adolescents.
Sidney Hankerson
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY·Public Health & Epidemiology
Expand health disparities research among Mount Sinai faculty at all levels through methodology workshops, health equity seminars, a determinants-of-health journal club, community engagement opportunities and a shared resource repository.
Tommi Gaines
University of California-San Diego, CA·Public Health & Epidemiology
Build a community-based participatory research partnership with Southern California Tribal and community representatives to co-design a culturally appropriate study of naloxone vending machines on Tribal lands.
The school
Northern Arizona University: 4 labs on PI Pages, $94M a year on research, 86 research doctorates a year.
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