# Tracking and Evaluation Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY - BOZEMAN · 2020 · $114,005

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract:Tracking and Evaluation Core
Evaluation is critical to research, whether it is interpreting experimental results to determine the next
experiment to be done or evaluating results of an intervention in order to inform improvement of the efficacy of
the treatment. Similarly, evaluation is critical to the function of the American Indian-Alaskan Native Center for
Clinical and Translational Research Center (AI-AN CTRC) in achieving its goals. Thus, the AI-AN CTRC will
include a Tracking and Evaluation Core (TEC). The purpose of the TEC is two-fold: 1) To ensure that AI-
AN CTRC achieves its goals of building Native health research capacity in Alaska (AK) and Montana
(MT) and improves the health of these state’s Native peoples; and 2) To provide ongoing program
improvements using data generated from formative assessment measures that support and strengthen
project aims and goals. To accomplish these goals, the following specific aims will be achieved: Aim 1. To
develop and utilize an internal evaluation plan to regularly assess achievement of both short term and
long-term AI-AN CTRC goals. To achieve this, TEC will develop a functional structure to provide formative
evaluation of the impact that the AI-AN CTRC is having on key measures of clinical and translational research
expansion, training, and research development across the Core activities. The TEC will facilitate the timely
exchange of data between all project components, and strengthen AI-AN CTRC processes and activities. Aim
2. To evaluate both the processes and outcomes related to the specific aims of the AI-AN CTRC and its
components and provide data to be used by AI-AN CTRC leadership to adjust Center activities to more
effectively achieve its goals. Comprehensive evaluation will focus on assessing progress toward the AI-AN
CTRC overall aims and goals as well as the specific aims and goals of each Core. Annual summative
evaluation reports will address the following milestones and ensure program goals are met: a) effectiveness of
the Cores; b) collaboration across Cores; c) use of project expertise and resources to advance community
based participatory research methods and related biostatistics and epidemiology supports; d) equitable
distribution of project resources; e) representation of AI and AN as stakeholders; f) effectiveness of training
and mentoring activities; g) implementation, progress, and impact of research to improve health research
capacity and overall community health; and, h) progress toward sustainability of research projects.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10011848
- **Project number:** 5U54GM115371-05
- **Recipient organization:** MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY - BOZEMAN
- **Principal Investigator:** Lisa M. Blank
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $114,005
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2016-08-01 → 2024-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10011848

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10011848, Tracking and Evaluation Core (5U54GM115371-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10011848. Licensed CC0.

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