# Capacity-Building

> **NIH NIH S06** · FOND DU LAC RESERVATION · 2024 · $347,770

## Abstract

Over the past two decades tribes have increasingly exercised their sovereignty with regards to the oversight of
research conducted with its members and ownership of the products of that research, including data,
publications, copyrights, and intellectual property rights. In order for significant health disparities to be resolved
via federally funded health research, tribes need the ability to own, control, and use the data and other
products created. This capacity-building project will build research infrastructure to foster health-related
research and opportunities to enhance the cadre of students and faculty in health-related fields through
developing that capacity at Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (FDL) to provide access to social
and biomedical resources and strengthen the research capabilities of the communities and their researchers.
Specifically, our aims are to:
1. Coordinate NARCH tribal partnerships among FDL, Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate (SWO), Native American
 Community Clinic (NACC), additional tribes/tribal organizations, and academic researchers to grow our
 research network in order to build relationships and encourage future research collaboration.
2. Develop the FDL Research Data Repository to gather, store, and curate multi-site tribal research data
 from the NARCH Epidemiologic Project to Increase Indigenous Capacity (EPIIC), as well as from other
 past and future research projects conducted at FDL.
3. Hire, train, and mentor a FDL Research Data Manager to be responsible for organizing, storing, and
 analyzing data as efficiently as possible, while upholding rigorous, agreed-upon standards in privacy,
 confidentiality, and security; and to respond in a timely way to tribal and regional partners’ requests for data
 and reports.
4. Develop and provide in-person and webinar-based trainings on research ethics for faculty
 researchers, students, IRB members, and tribal institutional officials.
By creating this model within one tribe, we lay the foundation for a regional center for tribal research to gather,
curate, and disseminate data that will serve a broad and diverse set of AIAN communities and promote tribally-
initiated and -engaged research.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10708772
- **Project number:** 5S06GM145764-02
- **Recipient organization:** FOND DU LAC RESERVATION
- **Principal Investigator:** Crystal Dawn Greensky
- **Activity code:** S06 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $347,770
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2022-09-22 → 2027-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10708772

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10708772, Capacity-Building (5S06GM145764-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10708772. Licensed CC0.

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