From community data to research archive: Partnering to increase and sustain capacity within a native organization

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Janet Page-Reeves
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9401-3248
Ananda Marin
Molly Bleecker
Maurice Leon Moffett
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4536-9843
Kathy DeerInWater
Sarah EchoHawk
Douglas Medin

Abstract

Community engagement and participation in academic research is growing in popularity and acceptance. Communities are now routinely engaged and participate in academic research design, implementation and interpretation, but the capacity of communities to conduct their own research is not always a product of these engagement initiatives. This article describes a collaboration between an organisation that supports Native American participation in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and university researchers to expand the organisation’s capacity to conduct research by creating a searchable database from their organisational records. We discuss how strategic design of a research collaboration can result in infrastructure development that contributes to community capacity.

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Practice-based articles (Non-refereed)
Author Biography

Maurice Leon Moffett, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center

Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine