Indigenous Wellness Research Institute

Affiliates


October 18, 2021

Angelique Day, PhD (Hochunk)

Photo of Angelique Day, PhD (Hochunk)

Angelique Day, PhD, MSW, (Ho Chunk Descendent) has been a faculty affiliate of IWRI since September 2017. Her indigenous focused research projects to date since joining IWRI include: Lead evaluator of CORE Teen, an in-service foster/adoptive parent training curriculum in partnership with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; curriculum designer, Healthy Transitions, an independent living…


December 7, 2020

Judith Tsui, MD, MPH


August 15, 2017

Ramona Beltrán, PhD, MSW (Chicana, Indigenous Mexican descent)

Ramona Beltrán’s Ramona Beltran, (Chicana, Indigenous Mexican descent) scholarship focuses on the intersections of historical trauma, embodiment, and environmental/social determinants of health as they affect health and risk behaviors in indigenous communities. She is particularly interested in centering cultural protective factors, strengths and resiliencies in indigenous populations as they work to interrupt the intergenerational transmission…


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…