# Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH S06** · SOUTHCENTRAL FOUNDATION · 2024 · $79,761

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY – Administrative Core 
American Indian and Alaska Native (ANAI) communities are increasingly asserting tribal sovereignty over 
research, setting their own research agendas, and building capacity to lead and conduct their own 
research. Southcentral Foundation (SCF), a tribal health care organization serving 65,000 ANAIs in 
Alaska, established a Research Department (RD) in 2006 to conduct health research for and by ANAI 
people that aligns with organizational and community priorities and values. Through implementation of 
training, grant management software, and expanded program evaluation, prior NARCH funding has 
strengthened the SCF RD's ability to administer and evaluate individual research projects within a diverse 
and burgeoning research portfolio. This Center will expand this portfolio with a focus on dissemination and 
implementation research designed to improve ANAI health outcomes and healthcare delivery. 
The overarching goal of the proposed Administrative Core is to position SCF to be competitive for large, 
multi-component National Institutes of Health center grants which have been awarded primarily to academic 
institutions. We will expand SCF's capacity—and create a new ANAI career pathway—to administer, 
communicate, and collaborate across multiple, simultaneous tribal research projects and teams and add 
critical capacity to systematically evaluate individual and collective research and capacity-building efforts. 
The Specific Aims of this project are to: 1) Implement an ANAI Research Administrator position and 
mentoring program to support the administrative, coordination, and communication needs of 
complex, multicomponent center grants; and 2): Institute a unified evaluation framework to 
assess research outcomes and processes, as well as capacity building efforts in a tribal health 
setting. We will develop and implement a curriculum to prepare Research Administrators to lead 
Center administrative tasks and ensure the Administrative Core effectively serves as the 
communication and coordination hub for study teams and partners and supports evaluation and 
oversight functions. We will use two complementary dissemination and implementation research 
frameworks (Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance [RE-AIM] and the 
Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research [CFIR]) to evaluate individual Center 
components and the Center overall to facilitate learning about implementation in tribal health systems. 
This effort will be led by Dr. Denise Dillard, an Inupiaq Eskimo psychologist who has served as the Director 
of the SCF RD since 2008. Julie Benson, Program Director of the $17.7 million Alaska IDeA Network of 
Biomedical Research Excellence, will serve as co-investigator.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10923990
- **Project number:** 5S06GM142122-04
- **Recipient organization:** SOUTHCENTRAL FOUNDATION
- **Principal Investigator:** Julie Beans
- **Activity code:** S06 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $79,761
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2021-09-24 → 2026-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10923990

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10923990, Administrative Core (5S06GM142122-04). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-28 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10923990. Licensed CC0.

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