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Institute of Medicine Health Equity Workshop

The Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities will hold a workshop on Leveraging Culture to Address Health Inequalities. The purpose of this workshop is to highlight the role of culture in health promotion and disease prevention in indigenous communities. The workshop will address culture as a social determinant of health, the role of community based efforts to promote better health outcomes, and the role of culture in health research.

Leveraging Culture to Address Health Inequalities: Examples from Native Communities
November 14, 2012
Seattle, WA

View a draft of the Workshop Agenda online. Find more information about the Health Equity Workshop and how to register online. Please contact Andres Gaviria at agaviria@nas.edu or (202) 334 – 2532 with any questions.

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By Julie Loughran – October 2, 2012

American Indian Day at UIHI

The Seattle Indian Health Board’s Urban Indian Health Institute will be closed on Friday, September 28th to celebrate American Indian Day. The UIHI will re-open during normal business hours on Monday, October 1st. The SIHB and the UIHI celebrate American Indian Day on the last Friday in September. Historically, both Native American Heritage Month and American Indian Day have been celebrated by honoring the contributions, achievements, sacrifices, and cultural and historical legacy of American Indians and Alaska Natives.

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By Crystal Tetrick – September 21, 2012

UIHI Receives New Five Year Demystifying Data Grant

The Office of Minority Health has awarded the Seattle Indian Health Board’s Urban Indian Health Institute a five year grant entitled, Demystifying Data: Eliminating AI/AN Health Disparities Through Information, Partnership and Training. This program will increase awareness of health disparities and improve the health and well-being of urban American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) by achieving the following objectives:

  1. Increase UIHI’s access, utilization and analysis of critical sources of public health data in order to identify priority health status objectives and services needed;
  2. Improve access to and coordination of quality health care services for urban AI/ANs by offering Partnership Awards in support of UIHOs’ development of sustainable key stakeholder collaborations; and
  3. Increase the representation of AI/ANs in public health professions by providing training in public health practice and professional mentorship to AI/AN students or emerging professionals.

Funded from September 2012 to August 2017, this program supports UIHI to build on its past efforts conducting sustainable, culturally appropriate, practice-based public health work to reduce health disparities.

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By Megan Fairweather – August 29, 2012