# Cherokee Nation Native AmericanResearch Center for Health

> **NIH NIH S06** · CHEROKEE NATION · 2021 · $538,727

## Abstract

Project Summary
The Cherokee Nation Native American Research Center for Health (Cherokee NARCH) seeks to conduct
community-engaged research and scientific workforce enhancement projects capable of addressing the major
health issues affecting American Indians in northeastern Oklahoma that are served by Cherokee Nation Health
System clinical and public health programs. Cherokee NARCH will accomplish its mission through
collaboration with its research-intensive partners, the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
(OUHSC) and the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF), to jointly execute and evaluate these
projects. The aims of the overall Cherokee NARCH program are: 1) to strengthen infrastructure for sustained
engagement between the Cherokee Nation and its research intensive-partners, OUHSC and OMRF; 2) to
develop a highly collaborative and robust program of scientific research aimed at elucidating and remedying
major health disparities affecting the Cherokee Nation; and 3) to grow the scientific workforce by providing
enhancement opportunities for American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) students, tribal employees and other
researchers who wish to help the Cherokee Nation or other AI/AN communities address leading causes of
excess morbidity and mortality. All projects were developed through iterative consultation and shared decision-
making involving tribal representatives, the Cherokee NARCH Leadership Team and Community-Campus
Advisory Council, and researchers at Cherokee Nation and OUHSC/OMRF. This process led to the decision to
propose research, pilot research, student enhancement and researcher enhancement projects that taken
together will help grow genuine tribal research capacity through the development of a cadre of Native
investigators who are well-prepared to conduct empirically based, scientific investigation on the major health
issues affecting American Indians and Alaska Natives.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10246867
- **Project number:** 5S06GM127983-04
- **Recipient organization:** CHEROKEE NATION
- **Principal Investigator:** SOHAIL Imran KHAN
- **Activity code:** S06 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $538,727
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2018-09-12 → 2024-09-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10246867

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10246867, Cherokee Nation Native AmericanResearch Center for Health (5S06GM127983-04). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10246867. Licensed CC0.

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