• Education and training  Mayo and the IHS will encourage and promote training and education opportunities for AI/AN students seeking health care careers as practitioners or as biomedical researchers and advanced training opportunities for practicing clinicians, nurses, and researchers.  Such opportunities shall include, but not be exclusive to, Mayo. 
• Career opportunities for qualified professionals  Working together, Mayo and the IHS will promote career and service opportunities for qualified AI/AN researchers, clinicians, and allied health care workers to positions in academic medical centers, including Mayo, and to positions in IHS and tribal clinics.  Consistent with the Mayo principle to serve patient needs “from our communities, regions, the nation, and the world,” Mayo will work with the IHS to recruit professionals to serve in IHS and tribal facilities where medical and allied health shortages limit communities’ access to quality care.  Efforts to encourage employment in biomedical careers that serve AI/AN populations are already a part of the efforts of Mayo’s Native American Programs. 
• Research to address AI/AN health issues  In consultation with the tribes, Mayo and the IHS will identify, develop, and execute research to address AI/AN health needs.  Such efforts will be modeled on the work of Mayo’s Native American Programs and the Nicotine Dependence Center’s work in Alaska Native Communities. 
• Federal and foundation grant contracts and funding  Mayo and the IHS will collaborate to identify appropriate funding resources and to support research and service efforts to improve AI/AN health circumstances, where joint effort is consistent with the missions, values, and goals of the parties and deemed valuable by the AI/AN communities. 
• Cost-effective health care and preventive health-services for AI/AN communities  Mayo and the IHS will work together to develop greater access to reliable, high quality health care and preventive health-services that respond to the identified needs and health profiles of the communities. 

For more information, contact: Wes Peterson
Email: peterson.wesley@mayo.edu

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