# Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $618,864

## Abstract

Native-Controlling Hypertension And Risk through Technology (Native-CHART) is organized as an 
Administrative Core, a Methodology Core, a Consortium Core, and a Dissemination Core. The Administrative 
Core will be directed by Principal Investigator (PI) Dedra Buchwald, MD, who is a Professor at Washington State 
University and is nationally recognized for her research and leadership in areas relevant to this RFA. She will be 
joined by Co-PI Spero Manson, PhD, who directs the Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health at 
the University of Colorado Denver. Both institutions excel in administration, methods, scholarship, and 
dissemination, and maintain efforts to understand and eliminate health disparities among traditionally 
underserved populations. Together they have formidable strengths in community-based participatory research, 
innovative community education and outreach efforts, multilevel interventions, and field work with American 
Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (NHPI) populations. This Core will direct and support 
the 3 Intervention Projects, the 3 other Cores, and the Satellite Centers that comprise Native-CHART. It will 
manage, coordinate, and supervise all activities; monitor progress; ensure that plans are implemented; and verify 
that Native-CHART research complies with applicable Federal regulations and policies. Our Specific Aims are 
to: 1) support logistical and field operations, such as coordinating meetings and travel, across Projects, Cores, 
Satellite Centers, and academic and community partnerships; 2) oversee a management plan that stimulates, 
coordinates, integrates, and monitors activities and functions; 3) supervise implementation of key strategic 
decisions; 4) facilitate implementation of research regulatory processes, data sharing plans, and transfer of data; 
5) collaborate on program planning, review, and evaluation; and 6) convene committees, such as the Native- 
CHART Executive Committee, Steering Committee, Working Group, Data Safety and Monitoring Board, and 
Community Action Board. Not all of these committees will be resourced or implemented by the Administrative 
Core, but their work will be coordinated and facilitated through this Core. The Executive Committee will include 
the PIs and Leaders of Cores and Intervention Projects. The Steering Committee will include the PIs, 
representatives from the Satellite Centers, 2 external members, and the NIMHD Program Officials and 
Scientist(s). The Community Action Board will offer guidance on local and national concerns, especially cultural 
issues. The Data Safety and Monitoring Board will monitor studies and review adverse events. These committees 
will ensure Native-CHART’s activities align with its mission, scientific aims, and pertinent regulatory and 
compliance mandates.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10108951
- **Project number:** 5U54MD011240-06
- **Recipient organization:** WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** DEDRA S BUCHWALD
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $618,864
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2016-08-01 → 2025-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10108951

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10108951, Administrative Core (5U54MD011240-06). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10108951. Licensed CC0.

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