Partnerships
Advisory Members // Māhina
Mahina - Advisory Committee
The AC and ICAP guides the scientific and cultural curriculum, sets an intellectual standard, and creates a reciprocal learning culture for the Māhina program.
Julie Baldwin, PhD
Professor, Department of Community & Family Health, University of South Florida
John Lowe, PhD (Cherokee)
Mckenzie Professor In Health Disparities Research, College of Nursing, Florida State University
Director, Center for Indigenous Nursing Research for Health Equity, Florida State University
Cherryl Waerea-i-te-rangi Smith, PhD (Ngati Apa, Whanganui, Te Aitanga a Hauiti)
Director, Te Atawhai o te Ao
Mahina - Indigenous Committee Advisory Panel
The ICAP provides cultural leadership, mentorship, and guidance on the research training curriculum and cultural mentorship protocols; identify community-based pressing topics for research in partnership with tribes and Native communities; provide feedback on developing tribally-based research protocols for inclusion in Māhina trainings
Joseph Keawe’aimoku Kaholokula, PhD
Associate Professor and Chair of Native Hawaiian Health, John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Patsy Whitefoot, MA (Yakama/Diné)
Palatisha Miyanashma Indian Education, Toppenish School District Toppenish, Washington
Mahina-Scientific Mentor Network
The Mahina Scientific Mentor Network is a group of experienced, biomedical, behavioral, and social scientists with expertise in health and/or health disparities and who have extensive mentorship or leadership experience in Indigenous communities. In addition to the mentors listed below, the PIs as well as members of the Advisory Committee and Indigenous Committee Advisory Panel can also serve as mentors to trainees.
Megan Bang, PhD (Ojibwe)
Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education, University of Washington
Michelle Johnson-Jennings, PhD (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma)
Associate Professor, Indigenous Studies, College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan
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Nancy Krieger, PhD
Professor of Social Epidemiology, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard University
Maya Magarati, PhD (Indigenous Nepali)
Research Scientist, IWRI Community Engagement and Outreach Core
Lecturer, School of Social Work, University of Washington
Preceptor, LUNA Program
Selina Mohammed, PhD
Associate Professor of Nursing, University of Washington Bothell, School of Nursing
Myra Parker, JD, PhD (Mandan & Hidatsa)
Associate Director, IWRI Community Engagement and Outreach Core
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington
Cynthia R. Pearson, PhD
Director of Research, IWRI
Research Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Univeristy of Washington
Leonie Pihama, PhD (Te ātiawa, Ngāti Māhanga, Ngā Māhanga ā Tairi)
Senior Research Fellow, Te Kātahi Institute, University of Waikato
Director, Māori And Indigenous Analysis Ltd, a Kaupapa Māori research company
Melissa L. Walls PhD (Bois Forte and Couchiching First Nations Anishinabe)
Associate Professor, Department of Biobehavioral Health and Population Sciences at the University of Minnesota Medical School-Duluth