# Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY - BOZEMAN · 2020 · $747,571

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract: Administrative Core
The paramount responsibility of the Administrative Core (AC) is to ensure that the American Indian-Alaskan
Native Clinical and Translational Research Center (AI-AN CTRC) keeps its efforts focused on the goal of the
program, which is to build research capacity in AI-AN health research and improve AI-AN health in Montana
(MT) and Alaska (AK). Thus, the AI-AN CTRC Administrative Core (AC) must assure that AI-AN CTRC cores
work together efficiently by continually and carefully monitoring their activities and facilitating communications
within and among them. The AC will work closely with the Tracking and Evaluation Core to monitor the
Center’s activities, and, if needed, change allocation of resources and/or aims according to the guidelines of
the Center’s operating policies and procedures. The AI-ANCTRC spans across two large states and 7 sites
and is designed to create an environment, much of it virtual, that will link the program’s components so that it
functions as one body. Thus, the AI-AN CTRC AC will create the organizational and physical environment
necessary to facilitate the accomplishment of the goals and specific aims of AI-AN CTRC components
and integrate the functions of the AI-AN CTRC components to achieve the overall goals of the program
through three specific aims which include: 1. Develop and maintain the leadership, governance, and
expertise needed for AI-AN CTRC to accomplish its goals. The AC will be directed by Drs. Allen Harmsen
and Jay Butler as Multi-PIs and Judith Kaur as Co-Director. Together this team has expertise in building
research programs and administering large program grants as well as expertise and experience in Native
health research necessary to successfully lead the AI-AN CTRC. Governance of the AI-AN CTR will be by an
Internal Advisory Committee, External Advisory Committee, Community Advisory Board and Steering
Committee. 2. Develop and maintain the capacity of AI-AN CTRC components to achieve their aims and
coordinate component efforts, facilitating the integration of components within the Center,
investigators within the Center, and the community with the Center. Center activities will be coordinated
by developing the communication network necessary for AI-AN CTRC components to be integrated and
function as a single body. Video conferencing will be used for regularly scheduled working meetings. Potential
new Center investigators and community members will access Center resources through a Center website. 3.
Work with the Evaluation Core to constantly assess the progress of the Center in achieving its goals
and, when needed, utilize evaluation to inform procedural and/or organizational changes to facilitate
achievement of the Center’s goals. It will be critical to constantly evaluate all components of the Center as
well as its overall accomplishments and when necessary will institute a change and again evaluate the effect of
the change on achievement of goals.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10011844
- **Project number:** 5U54GM115371-05
- **Recipient organization:** MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY - BOZEMAN
- **Principal Investigator:** ALLEN G HARMSEN
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $747,571
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2016-08-01 → 2024-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10011844

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10011844, Administrative Core (5U54GM115371-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10011844. Licensed CC0.

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