Navajo Nation Human Research Review Board Conference 2009

"Indigenous people and researchers: building collaborative partnerships and the importance of responsibilities, ethics, and values of research on the Navajo Nation"

The mission of the Navajo Nation Research Program is to support research that promotes and enhances the interests and the visions of the Navajo people: to encourage a mutual and beneficial partnership between the Navajo people and researchers; and to create an interface where different cultures, lifestyles, disciplines, and ideologies can come together in a way that improves, promotes, and strengthens the health of the Navajo people.

The Navajo Nation Human Research Review Board (NNHRB) was developed in March 1996 to guarantee ethical research for the Diné people. We are pleased to announce the 2009 NNHRB Conference to be held December 1 & 2, 2009 at the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, Arizona.

Pre-Conference Session on the Navajo Nation Research Approval Process
November 30th, Monday, from 6:30 to 8:00 pm
Navajo Nation Museum Auditorium

This is advise you that the Navajo Nation Human Research Review Board is planning to hold a special session on the research approval and review process implemented by this Board. This session will provide an overview to researchers new to the process, and an informational exchange for all researchers to ask questions and seek clarification on any issue. This will be similar to a session that was held at the 2007 Conference.

This session will be held from 6:30 to 8:00 the evening before the conference, Monday, November 30, at the auditorium of the Navajo Nation Museum.

If there is time, we can schedule a showing of the Gift of Life video, created collaboratively to provide a variety of Navajo views on genetics, which is the topic of a panel discussion during the second morning of the conference.

It would be useful if those of you who expect to attend this session would email Mark Bauer, Conference Organizer, at mcbauer@dinecollege.edu, , so that we will know what to expect in the way of attendance. Also, if there are particular issues and questions about the approval process that you would like this session to address, please let me know that as well.

Mark C. Bauer, PhD
Division of Math/Science Technology
Shiprock Campus
P.O. Box 580
Shiprock, NM 87420
(505) 368 - 3589
Fax (505) 368 - 3591

"This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of the University of New Mexico Office of Continuing Medical Education and the Navajo Nation Human Research Review Board. The University of New Mexico Office of Continuing Medical Education is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians."