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Indigenous Research Trainees // IHART 2


IHART2 - Cohort 2016

Myra Parker, JD, PhD (Mandan & Hidatsa)

Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington

Director, Seven Directions, Center for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors

myrap@uw.edu

Vanessa Simonds, ScD (Crow Tribe)

Associate Professor, Community Health, Montana State University

Angela Walden, PhD (Cherokee Nation)

Clinical Assistant Professor, Institute for Juvenile Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago

IHART2 - Cohort 2017

Felicia M. Mitchell, PhD (Chickasaw, Black, White

Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Arizona State University

Misty Pacheco, DrPH (Hawaiian, Japanese, White)

Associate Professor, Kinesiology and Exercise Science Department, Health Promotion track, University of Hawaii at Hilo

Margaret Robinson, PhD (Mi’kmaw from Eski’kewaq, Nova Scotia, and Member, Lennox Island First Nation)

Assistant Professor, Indigenous Studies in the Department of Sociology & Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University

IHART2 - Cohort 2018

Richard Armenta, PhD (Pascua Yaqui/Latino),

Assistant Professor, Health Science/Kinesiology, California State University San Marcos

rarmenta@csusm.edu

Peter Mataira, PhD (Maori)

MSW Program Director and Associate Professor, Hawai'i Pacific University College of Health and Society - School of Social Work

pmataira@hpu.edu

Eugenia Millender, PhD (Indigenous Afro-Latina (Kuna/Guna)

Associate Professor, College of Nursing, Florida State University

Matthew Town, PhD, MPH (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma)

Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health, Pacific University Oregon

IHART2- Cohort 2019

Melessa Kelley, PhD, RN

Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, The University of Texas at Austin

M. Crystal Lee, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor, College of Population Health, The University of New Mexico