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He started Iwikua, a community wellness and cultural organization, in 2014. He’s currently pursuing a PhD in rural indigenous health. THOSH COLLINS: Dion, you got into this because of your ...
The four main goals of the Native Diabetes Wellness Program are to promote general health in Native communities (physical activity, traditional foods), spread narratives of traditional health and survival in all aspects of life, utilize and evaluate health programs and education, and promote productive interaction with the state and federal ...
Since 2019, CAIRHE has sponsored Promoting Indigenous Research Leadership (PIRL), an annual three-day workshop that supports the public health research careers of Indigenous and other early-career faculty who work with Indigenous communities. The workshop hosts faculty investigators from across the United States for enriching career development ...
These sentiments still hold true for Pember and other Indigenous folks. When you purchase sage from Walmart, the plant is stripped of all its meaning and power, Pember tells Women’s Health. Sage ...
Today's Indigenous doulas aren’t forging a new practice. They’re reshaping an established approach within a modern context. They create birthing plans, present options for birth facilities ...
The National Indigenous Women's Resource Center (NIWRC) is a nonprofit organization that provides health resources to Native American women and also advocates for women's health, housing, and domestic violence support. [1] [2] [3] The organization was founded and is led by Native American women. [4]
Esther Tailfeathers (born 1960/1961) is a Canadian physician.. Raised on teetotal tribal lands, where she observed her father's struggles with alcohol, she became the medical lead at Alberta Health Services' Indigenous Wellness Core, where she developed Indigenous Health Commitments: Roadmap to Wellness.
She was an adjunct professor in the department of global health and the University of Washington School of Public Health. [2] She was the founding director of the University of Washington Indigenous Wellness Research Institute. [2] As of 2023, Walters has over 28 years of AI/AN health research experience. [2]