Agnes Attakai, MPA

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Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
P.O. Box 245210
1295 N. Martin A219E
Tucson, AZ 85724
Phone: (520) 626-4727
Fax: (520) 626-8009
agnesa@email.arizona.edu

Agnes Attakai, a member of the Dine (Navajo) Nation was raised on both the Dine homelands in Arizona and the urban California suburbs. She currently works as the Director of Health Disparities Outreach and Prevention Education for the Center for Health Equality at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona. Agnes has bachelors degree in Political Science and American Indian Studies and a Master's of Public Administration degree from the University of Arizona with a focus on health policy. She has received additional training through the National Cancer Institute Native Researcher Cancer Control Training Program and the Woodrow Wilson Summer Institutes Fellowship in Public Policy and International Affairs at the University of California Berkeley and Georgetown University.

Ms. Attakai has coordinated education programs for American Indian students at the university and community college level. She has been a Senior Research Specialist on projects focusing on economic and health disparities and coordinating education and training outreach for medically and rural underserved populations in Arizona. She has development educational materials and curriculum on health prevention, including cancer, to lay health workers (Community Health Representatives/Promotoras de Salud) and community members.

Agnes is a member of the American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Caucus of the American Public Health Association, the Native Research Network and the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science. She is on the Arizona Comprehensive Cancer Control State Plan committee.

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