Michelle Johnson-Jennings, PhD and Melissa L. Walls, PhD, both IHART Fellows, announce the RICH Center, an interdisciplinary collaboration between the School of Medicine and College of Pharmacy focused on building alliances between researchers and tribal communities for research.
The Research for Indigenous Community Health Center aims to provide an intercollegiate center for research collaborations with Indigenous entities. The Center further aims to foster scholarly works that will identify health barriers and protective factors to increase health and healthcare equity for Indigenous people.
March 6, 2012
Andrew Jolivette, PhD, Associate Professor and Chair, American Indian Studies, San Francisco State University and an IHART Fellow, recently announced the publication of Obama and the Biracial Factor: The Battle for a New American Majority (Policy Press, 2012). Jolivette is the editor of the collection of essays exploring the role of Obama's mixed-race identity in his path to the presidency.
March 6, 2012
The Indigenous HIV/AIDS Research Training program was featured in a March 2010 White House Blog entry written just before the fourth annual National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. The entry, “Together We Must Face the Challenge of HIV/AIDS in Native American Communities,” was posted by the White House Office of National AIDS Policy.
The IHART program was described as an important component in the effort to increase American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) access to HIV testing and comprehensive health services. Training and nurturing the grant-making skills of tribal, community, and university-based scholars in the areas of HIV/AIDS, other sexually transmitted infections, and mental health will help to lower barriers keeping American Indians and Alaska Natives from seeking care and treatment. The entry notes that “increasing the ranks of AI/AN and UREM scientists conducting culturally grounded research will generate information that can guide effective future prevention and intervention programs.”
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