INSPIRE - Scientific and Community Leadership Council
August 15, 2017
Nancy Rumbaugh Whitesell, PhD
Dr. Whitesell’s work focuses on child and adolescent development within the contexts of American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) communities. Her research projects apply developmental science to inform preventive interventions to improve outcomes for both young children (birth to five years) and young adolescents (10 to 14 years). Through her leadership role in the Tribal…
Roberto E. Orellana, PhD
Dr. Roberto Orellana is Associate Professor of Social Work at Portland State University (PSU), where he is also affiliate faculty in the School of Community Health and the Department of Indigenous Nations Studies. Throughout his doctoral program and early scholarly activities, Dr. Orellana has gained experience in global health research, especially on the science of…
August 3, 2017
Melissa L. Walls PhD (Bois Forte and Couchiching First Nations Anishinabe)
Melissa L. Walls Ph.D. (Bois Forte and Couchiching First Nations Anishinabe) is a social scientist committed to collaborative research and has over a decade of experience working with tribal communities in the United States and Canada. Her involvement in community-based participatory research (CBPR) projects to date includes mental health epidemiology; culturally-relevant, family-based substance use prevention…
July 28, 2017
John Lowe, PhD (Cherokee)
Michelle Johnson-Jennings, PhD (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma)
Geri Donenberg, PhD
July 26, 2017
Myra Parker, JD, PhD (Mandan & Hidatsa)
Julie Baldwin, PhD
April 5, 2017
Bonnie Duran, DrPH (Opelousas/Coushatta)
Bonnie Duran has worked in public health education, evaluation, program planning and research with Native Americans and other communities of color for 35 years. For the past 10 years, she has been studying the prevalence of mental disorders, victimization risk factors and treatment of Native American women who use Indian Health Service primary care facilities…