1st Quarter 2016

On January 12, 2016, Dr. Eric J. (EJ) David presented a talk titled, “Oppression Under the Skin: The Manifestation and Implications of Internalized Oppression,” at IWRI’s Quarterly Speaker Series. David’s research focuses on the way in which colonial history and present-day oppression has inflicted the crippling effects of internalized oppression on indigenous peoples. He unapologetically…

On January 6, 2016, IWRI had the honor of hosting Native Hawaiian visitors from the Queen Liliu’okalani Children’s Center, a social agency created to fulfill the Queen’s mission to care for and support orphan and destitute children throughout the State of Hawai‘i. The cohort from the Children’s Center travelled through Seattle and Portland to visit…

On October 14, 2015, IWRI hosted a lunchtime meet and greet with Shannon and Anthony Fleg, who were visiting Seattle from Albuquerque for the Native Health Pathways Conference. Shannon Fleg is a Diné woman from Arizona, who is trained with a master’s in health education, and serves as a coordinator for the Native Health Initiative…

Since 1995, David Bonderman, a University of Washington graduate, has provided a travel fellowship opportunity to 236 UW students. In 2016, seven graduate and professional students and eight undergraduate students were selected from among over one hundred applicants. The selected students will receive $20,000 each to use for independent travels. Our two students will embark…

The first cohort of IHART2 Fellows began their two-year training program in March 2016. Four fellows have been selected to participate in the new grant cycle which has expanded to include Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders, as well as postdoctoral and junior scholars in the training program. After a successful recruitment period during the fall…

In 2007, IWRI began a partnership with a Northwest tribe to better understand and address cardiovascular disease (CVD) in this Native community. The collaboration resulted first in a research study called Healthy Hearts Across Generations, which collected surveys from 284 randomly selected members from tribal rolls to examine cardiovascular disease risks and examine what coping…

This article was reprinted with permission from University of Alaska Fairbanks News and Information When Elizabeth Fleagle retired in 1997, she felt lost. So she prayed about what she was supposed to do next. Two weeks later, she got a telephone call with the answer. The American Indian Science and Engineering Society of Fairbanks asked…

We are happy to report that the full trial of the Ethics Training for Health in Indigenous Communities Study (ETHICS) launched in February 2016 and we are actively seeking eligible Native participants to test the culturally-adapted research ethics training. The purpose of ETHICS is to adapt a research training so that it prepares researchers to…

The “Creating Campus Change” (CCC) project closed its Tribal Colleges and Universities Alcohol, Drugs and Mental Health Epidemiology (TCU-ADME) survey on February 29, 2016, after 1½ years in the field at 22 TCU throughout the U.S. and Canada. With 3,175 student respondents representing a 31% response rate, the TCU-ADME Survey becomes the largest psychological epidemiology…