Promoting Indigenous Research Leadership

James Burroughs
jburroughs@montana.edu

Promoting Indigenous Research Leadership (PIRL) is a 3-day workshop designed to promote the public health research careers of Indigenous and other early-career faculty working with Indigenous communities across the country. PIRL helps faculty investigators foster a sense of community, improve leadership and grant application skills, and receive the mentoring and career support they need.

PIRL includes:

• Focused mentoring with senior faculty funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from across the country, and with peers who share similar backgrounds and research interests
• Presentations from leading experts in Indigenous health
• One-on-one consultation with program officers from the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and other NIH programs

The next PIRL workshop will be held April 5-7, 2027, in Tempe, Arizona.

Eligibility requirements:

• Applicants must be able to attend the workshop in person for all three days: April 5-7, 2027.
• Applicants must hold a doctoral degree and have a faculty appointment or comparable research appointment at a 2- or 4-year college or university in the U.S., or at another NIH grant-eligible research organization. Postdoctoral fellows are not eligible.
• At the time of application, applicants must meet the NIH definition for new investigator. Priority is given to applicants who are also Early-Stage Investigators.
• Applicants must already be working with an American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian community in one or more areas of public health research, or have a stated career goal to do so.

Special consideration is given to faculty who are actively amending a previously submitted NIH research grant application that was not funded.

There is minimal cost to participate. PIRL pays for most travel and lodging expenses.

Up to 15 investigators from across the United States will be selected to participate.

A link to the online application is available on the program website.