Partnerships
Advisory Members // Itzá: Indigenous HIV/AIDS Research Training 3 (IHART3) Program
Itza - Scientific Community Leadership Council
The Itzá (IHART3) Scientific and Community Leadership Council (SCLC) guides the scientific and cultural curriculum, sets an intellectual standard, and creates a reciprocal learning culture for the Lauhoe program. Members of the SCLC meet twice per year (once in person and once via teleconference) to review the overall Itzá program, not only in relation to scientific and training activities, but also in relation to advancing knowledge that is culturally relevant and accessible to communities, public policy makers and governmental officials. The SCLC also makes recommendations to the Administrative Core regarding program activities.
Julie Baldwin, PhD
Regents' Professor, Department of Health Sciences, Northern Arizona University
Director, Center for Health Equity Research (CHER), Northern Arizona University
Ramona Beltrán, PhD, MSW (Chicana, Indigenous Mexican descent)
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver
Geri Donenberg, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago
Co-Vice Chair of Research, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago
Director, Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science and the Healthy Youths Program, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago
Hamen Ides, (Lummi)
Founder and Executive Director, Ti-Chee Native AIDS Prevention
Michelle Johnson-Jennings, PhD (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma)
Executive Co-director, Indigenous Wellness Research Institute
Professor, University of Washington School of Social Work
Director, Environmentally based Health & Land-based Healing, IWRI
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
Lana Kaʻopua, PhD
Associate Professor , Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work University of Hawaii at Manoa
Tooru Nemoto, PhD
Research Program Director , Public Health Institute
Melissa L. Walls PhD (Bois Forte and Couchiching First Nations Anishinabe)
Director, Great Lakes Hub for the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health
Associate Professor, International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Frank Wong, PhD
Associate Professor, Behavioral Sciences/Health Education Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Itza - Scientific Mentor Network
The Scientific Mentor Network mentors are on stand-by to be matched as mentors to IHART3-Itza Fellows and to participate in the summer institute on an as-needed basis. The six SMN mentors listed here are 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.
Tommi Gaines, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease and Global Public Health, University of California San Diego
Carol Kaufman, PhD
Associate Professor, Community & Behavioral Health, Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Denver
Renee Masching, MSW (First Nations Canada)
Director of Research & Policy, Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network
Steven Safren, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychology University of Miami
Itza- Native Community Advisory Expert Panel
Members of the Itzá (IHART3) Native Community Advisory Expert Panel (NCAEP) review the overall Lauhoe curriculum in relation to advancing knowledge that is culturally relevant and accessible to communities and tribes. The NCAEP makes recommendations regarding the program’s cultural mentorship activities and training curricula and ensures that the Itzá program remains responsive to pressing Native community needs. The NCAEP provides cultural leadership, mentorship, and guidance on the research training curriculum and Itzá cultural mentorship protocols; identifies tribally and community-based topics for research in partnership with tribes and Native communities; provides feedback on developing tribally-based research protocols for inclusion in Itzá trainings, and provides general feedback on Itzá protocols and procedures. Additionally, when desired, they may provide cultural mentorship or consultation to trainees.
Fransing Daisy, PhD (Cree)
Coordinator, American Indian/Alaska Native Programs Northwest AIDS Education and Training Center
Sharon Day (Boise Fort Ojibwe)
Executive Director , Indigenous Peoples Task Force (IPTF)
Melvin Harrison (Navajo/Dine)
Founder and Executive Director, Navajo AIDS Network
Ashliana Hawelu-Fulgoni
Co-founder and Executive Director, Kulia Na Mamo
Cathy Kiana Keiko Kapua
HIV Prevention Specialist, Life Foundation
Elton Naswood (Navajo/Diné)
Project Coordinator, Red Circle Project, AIDS Project Los Angeles
Member, Community Advisory Council for the National Native American AIDS Prevention Center
Harlan Pruden (First Nations Cree)
Managing Editor, TwoSpiritJournal.com
Antony Stately, PhD (Ojibwe/Oneida)
CEO, Native American Community Clinic
Sandra Stroud (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma)
Project Director, Yappalli
Lisa Tiger (Muscogee Nation)
Activist and Native leader in AIDS education,
