Research Projects
Native and rural communities in Montana suffer from severe health disparities. The mission of the Center for American Indian and Rural Health Equity (CAIRHE) is to reduce health disparities across the state through community-based participatory research that is considerate of and consistent with local cultures.
Since early 2015, CAIRHE has supported multiple research projects each year through its Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health. Some of our faculty have achieved independent investigator status through major external grant funding, from NIH and other agencies, for projects that have emerged from previous CAIRHE support. They now lead these studies as principal investigators affiliated with CAIRHE. For more about each project, click on the links below.
Research Project
Project Leader Lauren Davis, Ed.D.
MSU Department of Education
Research Project
MSU Department of Psychology
Research Project
CAIRHE Assistant Research Professor
Independent Project
Nen ŨnkUmbi/EdaHiYedo (“We Are Here Now”) (NIH, R01MD012761)
2018-2024
MSU Department of Human Development & Community Health
Independent Project
Guardians of the Living Water: Advancing Informal STEM Learning in a Tribal Community (NSF, 2006031)
2020-2024
MSU Department of Human Development & Community Health
Independent Project
Randomized Controlled Trial of Indigenous Recovery Planning for American Indians (NIH, R01DA053791)
2021-2026
MSU Department of Psychology
Independent Project
Social Connectedness and Health in the Blackfeet Community: An Investigation of Biopsychosocial
Mediators (NIH, R01MD015894)
2021-2025
MSU Department of Psychology
Independent Project
Trauma and Cardiometabolic Health in an American Indian Community (NIH, R01HL163237)
2023-2028
MSU Department of Psychology
(with Annie Ginty, Ph.D., Baylor University)