Ahedo, Angelina, MPH
Umpqua - Confederated
Tribes of Grand Ronde
Evaluator, Native American Health Center
angelinaa@nativehealth.org
Projects
Parenting and Early Childhood Tribal Home Visiting Research on attachment, parental responsiveness, cultural connection, and historical
traumas impact on parenting in tribal communities.
Research Interests
Traditional childbirth, doula support, and all other MCH topics in
Indigenous community.
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Allen, Jim, PhD
Department of Biobehavioral Health & Population Sciences, University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth Campus
jallen@unm.edu
Andrade, Naleen, MD
Indigenous Hawaiian/Kanaka Maoli
John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai‘i at Minoa
Around Him, Deana, ScM
Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
dwagner@jhsph.edu
Asdigian, Nancy PhD
Colorado School of Public Health
nancy.asdigian@ucdenver.edu
Ball, Alison, PhD
University of Oregon
Bang, Megan, PhD
University of Washington
mbang3@uw.edu
Barlow, Allison, MA
Center for American Indian Health, Johns Hopkins
Barnes, Jessica, PhD
University Outreach and Engagement - University-Community Partnerships, Michigan State University
barnes33@msu.edu
Belcourt-Dittloff, Annie, PhD
Blackfeet/Mandan/Hidatsa/Chippewa
BigFoot, Dolores Subia, PhD
Caddo Nation of Oklahoma
Director, Indian Country Child Trauma Center, University of Oklahoma Health and Science Center
dee-bigfoot@ouhsc.edu
Bjork, Cynthia, MLS Ed
Projects
Scaffolding Early Learning, Dynamic Coaching in Tribal Head Starts in the Chippewa Cree Nation, Rocky Boy, MT and Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara Nation, New Town ND. Integrated curriculum project James Bay Cree School Board, Quebec, CA.
Research Interests
Serving Native education contexts with interity: American Indian/Alaska Native/ Native Hawaiian/First Nations Education, Indigenous Knowledge, language immersion/multilingual programs, supportive environments, curricula, pedagogy, socioemotional dimensions, etc.
Blue Bird Jernigan, Valarie DrPh, MPH
Projects
Several community-based participatory research intervention
projects with Native American communities, including Native youth, that
incorporate video voice to create healthier food policies in tribal
communities.
Research Interests
Health policy, food and physical activity environments, film and
digital media participatory research methodologies.
Bodrova, Elena
Booth-LaForce, Cathyrn, PhD
University of Washington
Projects
Childhood obesity needs assessment--Quinault Indian Nation Promoting First Relationships early preventive intervention program for mothers and young children--Spokane & Nez Perce Tribes (pending)
Research Interests
Strengths-based early preventive intervention programs to promote positive caregiver-child relationships, secure attachment, and optimal social-emotional development--Promoting First Relationships program
Boyes, Mike, PhD
Projects
Assisting urban aboriginal agencies in articulating issues of cultural safety. Evaluation of a Medicine Horse Therapy program.
Research Interests
Factors influencing personal and cultural aspects of identity.
Brown, Leslie, PhD
Projects
Siem Smun'eem: Research and
Training Network for Indigenous Child Well-being www.uvic.ca/icwr
Buckshot-Jock, Barbara
Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe
ECDP Director, Early Childhood Development Program
Projects
Head Start and Child care expansion
Byers, Lisa, PhD, MSW
Cherokee
Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma School of Social Work
lbyers@ou.eduProjects
American Indian Grand Families is a study that is designed to
build knowledge of the strengths and struggles facing urban American Indian
grandparents that are raising their grandchildren.
Carter, Susan
Cwik, Mary, PhD (licensed psychologist)
Assistant Scientist, Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health
Projects
Mary has worked on three youth suicide prevention initiatives using community-based participatory research with the White Mountain Apache Tribe. 1) The first assessed risk and protective factors, treatment experiences and preferences among youth who have attempted suicide. 2) The second is an initiative to provide the community with a constellation of youth suicide prevention strategies using a public health model (e.g., universal, indicated, selected). 3) The third evaluates the impact of two evidence-based interventions adapted by the Tribe for delivery by community paraprofessionals to youth who made a suicide attempt. She also manages a NARCH V/VI research study exploring binge drinking among Apache youth and serves as the evaluator for the Maryland SAMHSA GLS grant.
Research Interests
Developing emergency department interventions for suicidal youth; adapting and individualizing prevention and intervention efforts for suicidal youth based on cultural and co-morbid issues; and improving service delivery and utilization for youth at risk for suicide.
Drake, David
Dym Bartlett, Jessica, MSW, PhD
Brazelton Touchpoints Center
Projects
Evaluation of Project LAUNCH, Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior
Chippewa; Evaluation of Tribal MIECHV, Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
Research Interests
Research and evaluation on promoting well being for children and
families in Native Communities
Emde, Robert, MD
Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, University of Colorado Denver, Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health
Evans-Campbell, Tessa, PhD
Snohomish
University of Washington School of Social Work
Projects
Principal Investigator, Caring for our Generations NIDA (1R01DA029000-01)
Research Interests
Indigenous family wellness and Indian child welfare
Faircloth, Susan, PhDCoharie
College of Education, Pennsylvania State University Co-Director, "Principals for Student Success"
scf2@psu.eduResearch Interests
Leadership Preparation, Indian Education, Special Education (overrepresentation of American Indian/Alaska Native children), Tribally Operated Head Start Programs and Services
Farrell, Patricia, PhD
Taos Pueblo
University Outreach and Engagement, Michigan State University
Fehringer, Karen, PhD
Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health (CAIANH), Colorado School of Public Health (CSPH), University of Colorado Denver (UCD)
Fitzgerald, Hiram, PhD
Associate Provost and University Distinguished Professor, Michigan State University
fitzger9@msu.eduResearch Interests
I have five broad areas of scholarship that involve collaborations with many faculty, graduate students, and community colleagues, both within MSU and nationally. Each of these interests is anchored in developmental systems theory and biopsychosocial approaches to the organization of behavior. These are: 1) the etiology of alcoholism and co-occurring forms of psychopathology, a collaborative prospective longitudinal study with the University of Michigan Addiction Research Center, now in its 26th year. 2) the effectiveness of community prevention programs for enhancing developmental outcomes during the first six years of life 3) the role of fathers in early child development, 4) human uses of information technology, 5) the effectiveness of university-community partnerships for elaborating and sustaining social and economic community change.
Fleming, Candace, PhD
Kickapoo/Oneida/Cherokee
Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health (CAIANH), Colorado School of Public Health (CSPH), University of Colorado Denver (UCD)
Fryberg, Stephanie, PhD
Galliher, Renee, PhD
Department of Psychology, Utah State University
Research Interests
Renee Galliher has been a faculty member of the combined doctoral program in clinical, counseling, and school psychology at Utah State University since 2001. Her research is broadly aimed at understanding psychosocial development during adolescence. Within that broad context, her research has predominantly focused on individual characteristics and relationship processes associated with optimal development and functioning in adolescent relationships. Her current and future research emphasizes the integration of sexual identity development, ethnic identity development, and relationship experiences in sexual minority and ethnic minority adolescents. Understanding the roles of culture and context in the developmental process serves as the foundation for much of her work. In particular, examining rural communities as an important developmental context is a principal area of interest.
Gfellner, Barbara, PhD
Department of Psychology, Brandon University
Gonzalez, John, PhD
White Earth Ojibwe Nation
Bemidji State University
Gonzalez, Miigis, MPh, PhD(c)
Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe
University
of Minnesota, Duluth & Research for Indigenous Community Health (RICH)
Institute
Projects
Food as Medicine: exploring
community members' views, values, benefits, and barriers to traditional foods
and traditional food practices, a photovoice project; Perceptions of
pharmacists: comparing pharmacy doctorate students and American Indian
community's perceptions of the role of pharmacists to inform pharmacist
understanding of patient population; Increasing knowledge, beliefs, and
intentions towards careers in public health in American Indian students: An
education-based intervention
Research Interests
Food
as Medicine, food-based interventions, food as a cultural component,
traditional food practices, physical activity interventions, culture-based
interventions. Decreasing problems in mental health, type 2 diabetes, and
obesity.
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Goodkind, Jessica, PhD
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Prevention & Population Sciences, University of New Mexico
Grayson, Liane, PhD
Children and Family Services, MN Department of Human Services
Projects
Child welfare disparities, home-visiting
Research Interests
Parent-child interaction, communication development, infant mental health, early intervention
Hiratsuka, Vanessa, MPHNavajo and Winnemem Wintu
Southcentral Foundation
Research Interests
Early childhood oral
health; screening, chronic disease detection and treatment within the
patient-centered medical home; and community based participatory research
practices and policy development within Alaska Native and American Indian
tribal communities
Hishinuma, Earl, PhD
Department of Psychiatry, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Projects
Asian/Pacific Islander Youth Violence Prevention Center
Kaufman, Carol, PhD
Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health (CAIANH), Colorado School of Public Health (CSPH), University of Colorado Denver (UCD)
Kavanagh, Kate, PhD
Child and Family Center, University of Oregon
Kessel, Frank, PhD
University of New Mexico
Kipp, Billie Jo, PhD
Blackfeet Center for Native American Health, School of Medicine, University of New Mexico
Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center, Arizona State University
Projects
“Urban American Indian Youth Substance Use: Ecodevelopmental Influences” (NIMHD P20MD002316), a secondary data analysis of parent-child relationships as mediators and moderators of peer, school and neighborhood effects on urban Native adolescents use of substances. Parenting in 2 Worlds: “Using CBPR to Adapt a Culturally-grounded Prevention Curriculum for Urban American Indian Parents” (NIMHD R01MD006110), a cultural program adaptation targeting urban Native families to prevent adolescent substance use and risky sexual behavior. Living in 2 Worlds: “Culturally-Specific Substance Abuse Prevention for Urban American Indian Youth” (NIMHD P20MD002316), a cultural program adaptation of the keepin' it REAL model program for middle schools.
Research Interests
Cultural processes in health disparities, such as the role of gender and ethnic identity in youth drug use and prevention interventions; cultural adaptation of prevention programs for urban American Indian youth and their parents; contextual neighborhood and school level influences on youth substance use.gender and racial inequities in professional careers, and the organizational sources of ethnic and gender discrimination. He is currently leading two parallel NIMHD-funded studies with the urban American Indian communities of Arizona. Each is a cultural adaptation of existing prevention programs--one for adolescents and another for parents--to create culturally responsive interventions that strengthen the capacities of native families in urban areas to protect their children from substance use and other risky behaviors.
KyungSook, Lee, PhD
UOE, Michigan State University
leekyun3@msu.edu
LaFromboise, Teresa, PhDMiami, School of Education, Stanford University
Projects
Evaluation of the middle school version of the American Indian Life Skills intervention.
Research Interests
I apply and advance social cognitive, problem behavior and stress-vulnerability theories through the conduct of research in the following areas: (1) cultural competence and empirically supported interventions; (2) resilience and suicide prevention; and (3) ethnic identity and psychological well-being. All of these areas of inquiry emphasize social transactions and protocol more than personal dispositions.
Le, Thao, PhD, MPH
Projects
Mindfulness-based interventions for Native American & Native Hawaiian youth
Research Interests
Mindfulness-based interventions & cultural adaptations
Markstrom, Carol, PhD
College of Human Resources and Education, West Virginia University
Projects
Currently I'm writing a couple of different book chapters on the topic of adolescent rites of passage and would like to write another, more comprehensive book on this topic. I’m also working on the resubmission of a grant proposal to examine Native-based spirituality and religiosity as protective mechanisms in alcohol use of American Indian adolescents.
Research Interests
American Indian adolescents; identity formation within social and cultural contexts; indigenous stage theories; rites of passage; the roles of rituals as mechanisms of positive youth development.
McCarthy, Kayne Undergraduate Researcher
Puni Ke Ola Pilot Project
Honolulu, HI
Projects
The
purpose of the Puni Ke Ola Pilot Project is to develop a Native Hawaiian Model
of Substance Use Prevention for Native Hawaiian youth. Although western drug
prevention programs have been shown to be successful within communities and are
commonly used throughout the United States and internationally, Hawai`i
researchers and community leaders believe that a more culturally relevant
curriculum for drug prevention must be developed for Native Hawaiian youth.
This belief is derived from various Hawai`i-based studies which show that
Native Hawaiian youth begin to use drugs earlier, report more frequent offers,
and report higher use rates, as compared to non-Native Hawaiian youth (Lai
& Saka, 2005; Okamoto, Helm, Giroux, Edwards, & Kulis, 2010; Ramisetty-Mikler,
Caetano, Goebert, & Nishimura, 2004; Wong, Klingle, & Price, 2004). As
noted by the project’s leaders, Puni Ke Ola was initiated from a desire to use
a youth drug prevention program that is grounded in Hawaiian epistemology
(Helm, Lee, Hanakahi, et al, 2013). However, the team was unable to identify a
nationally recognized evidence-based practice in drug prevention that had been
grounded in Hawaiian epistemology (Edwards et al, 2010; Rehuher et al 2008). As
a result, community residents teamed with university researchers in an effort
to develop their own intervention model .
Research Interests
Kayne
McCarthy is a 2009 graduate of Punahou School and is currently an Undergraduate
Senior majoring in English B.A. and Biological Science B.A. at the University
of Hawaii at Manoa. Upon completion of his bachelor degrees, he intends to
pursue a Master’s of Public Health degree at the University of Hawaii’s John A.
Burns School of Medicine. His desire to pursue further education in the
discipline of Public Health has developed through his educational and
occupational research opportunities. Currently, Kayne is employed by the
Department of Public Health Studies at University of Hawaii at Manoa as a
Student Assistant and is also a Volunteer Intern at Hawaii’s Department of
Health (DOH). In doing so, Kayne has established personal connections to the
public health field by assisting many of Hawaii’s public health professionals
with various projects, such as: worksite wellness initiatives, Hawaii Youth
Risk Behavior Surveillance System fact sheet development for Public High
Schools, and social media networking for Hawaii DOH’s Start Living Hawaii
Healthy Program. As a Volunteer Undergraduate Researcher for the Puni Ke Ola
Project, Kayne has furthered his knowledge concerning community health through
the study of rural health and Native Hawaiian and Indigenous health (McCarthy,
2013). Working as a community participatory researcher in a rural Native
Hawaiian community has been a truly rewarding experience, as he has been able
to address and support the prevention of substance abuse. Through his work, he
hopes that the development of the Puni Ke Ola Intervention will reflect the
social-ecological model, which promotes societal change by addressing substance
abuse prevention on individual, family, and community levels.
Miller, Kimberly, PhD
Projects
Drug use among young Indians: Epidemiology and Prediction. Health Care Literacy for Head Start Families. PROJECT HOME: Healthcare Options Made Easy
Research Interests
Strength based psychology and resiliency, culturally sensitive measurement development, positive youth development, psychological well-being, and the epidemiology and treatment of substance use and eating disorders in ethnic minorities.
Mitchell, Christina, PhD
Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health (CAIANH), Colorado School of Public Health (CSPH), University of Colorado Denver (UCD)
Research Interests
Adolescent development, problem and positive behaviors among American Indian youth, longitudinal data analysis
Montano, Muskadee, MSW
Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Tribe
University of Minnesota Duluth
Mousseau, Alicia, MS
Oglala Lakota
University of Colorado Denver
Projects
Examining a number of social-cognitive concept including 1) Value Priorities 2) Self-Theories of Intelligence 3) Goals and 4) Self-Efficacy to Depressive Symptoms in American Indian Youth.
Research Interests
American Indian Youth Risk and Resiliency
Neha, Tia PhD Candidate
Ngā
Puhi, Ngāti Kahungunu, Te Whānau A Apanui, Ngāti Porou
University of Otago
Projects
PhD
Research: The role of Autobiographical Memory on New Zealand Maori Children's
School Readiness. International Research: a Cross-Cultural Study on the
Emotional Aspects of Te Reo Māori, with other Indigenous languages
Research Interests
Indigenous Psychology,
Developmental Psychology, Māori Language Revival, Māori Education, Māori Mental
Health and Mixed Methods Design
Newman, Denise, PhD
Ojibwe/Metis
Tulane University
Nixon, Dawn, PsyD
Red Cliff Project LAUNCH (Wisconsin)
Novins, Douglas, MD
Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health (CAIANH), Colorado School of Public Health (CSPH), University of Colorado Denver (UCD)
Pence, Alan, PhD
School of Child and Youth Care, University of Victoria
Price, Derek, PhD
Wheaton College)
Redbird-Post, Melody
Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma
Child Care Director, Kiowa Tribe Child Care Program
Projects
Qualitative study on impact of Kiowa language and Kiowa culture immersion in a
tribally-operated, state-licensed child care facility.
Research Interests
Early childhood social-emotional development especially in tribal Head Start and tribal child care programs; Mentor teaching best practices with emphasis on culture and language integration; Home visiting effectiveness for Native populations; Tribal child care administrative data analysis; Effective implementation of tribal language and culture in high quality early childhood settings.
Romero-Little, Eunice, PhD
Cochiti Pueblo
Associate Professor, School of Transformation/American Indian Studies,Arizona State University
Projects
Becoming Jemez: The Early Childhood Experiences of Jemez Children
Photovoice Project Project Mashchamtam Project - A Native American Early
Childhood Education Teacher Training Project.
Research Interests
Child language socialization, early childhood of Indigenous
children, Indigenous language maintenance and revitalisation, language
acquisition, alternative educational assessment, bi- and multi-lingual
education.
Rosenkoetter, Sharon, PhD
Oregon State University
Sam, Michele, MSW, HBSW, BA-Indigenous Learning and English
Ktunaxa
Researcher (part time) PhD - Interdisciplinary Studies, Human Early Learning
Partnership-University of British Columbia michele.sam@ubc.caProjects
Utilizing Early Development
Instrument data collected over 10 years, and contextualizing specific to
Ktunaxa Nation traditional land use territories. Indigenous Methodologies for
restoration of peoplehood in the early years Conceptualizing Aboriginal SocioEconomic
Index.
Research Interests
Indigenous Methodologies and influence of Indigenous cosmologies
and ontologies as context for mixed methods, cross cultural research
restoration of Indigenous Peoples knowledge relationships Appreciating
Indigenous peoples experiences of early years that challenge "early
childhood Development frameworks" 2nd and 3rd generation experiences of
FASD as neurobiological complex disorders and misdiagnoses Indigenous
sovereignty and cognitive justice for life long learning, health and wellbeing.
Michelle Sarche, PhD
Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health (CAIANH), Colorado School of Public Health (CSPH), University of Colorado Denver (UCD)
Scott, Walter
wscott@uwyo.edu
Shaw, Jennifer, PhD Candidate
Projects
Role of subsistence culture in perceived well-being and aspirations of Alaska Native youth (dissertation); community-level protective factors for suicide prevention in three Alaska Native communities.
Research Interests
Social and cultural dimensions of youth health and well-being; positive youth development; youth suicide prevention; participatory research; childhood studies
Siemon, Mark, RN, MPH, MSN, PhDc
Projects
Board member with New Mexico Alliance for School-Based Health Care
working to increase comprehensive school-based health programs in Native
American communities in New Mexico.
Research Interests
Policies and programs related to school health services for AI/AN
children and youth. Primary prevention of childhood obesity among AI/AN
children.
Silburn, Sven, BSc (Psychology), BSc (Hons), MSc (Clinical Psychology)
Projects
Early developmental
pathways linking health, disability, education, welfare and justice, 2010-2015;
NHMRC 572742 Development and evaluation of a program for Aboriginal parents to
build strong families and give children a healthy start, 2005-2011: NHMRC
323242 Transforming Indigenous Education Research and Evaluation Partnership
(Menzies & NT DET)
Research Interests
My current research is
focused on developing evidence-based policy and practice in child and youth
health, family and parenting interventions, education and child protection
services in the Northern Territory. My background is in the implementation,
analysis and reporting of a number of large-scale epidemiological studies
including the WA Child health Survey, the WA Aboriginal Child Health Survey and
the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC).
Soto, Claradina, MPH
Projects
Examining psychosocial cultural risk and protective factors to
smoking among American Indian youth in urban and rural areas of California.
Research Interests
Designing culturally appropriate and effective interventions for
the prevention of recreational smoking among American Indian populations, while
preserving traditional tobacco use for ceremonial purposes
Spicer, Paul, PhD
Projects
Multiple projects in intervention development in infancy and preschool
Research Interests
Early childhood development and intervention; Addiction and obesity
Spillane, Nichea, Clinical Psychology, PhD
Maliseet
Brown University
Stephens, Lancer, PhD, MS, BS, AA
Projects
Determinism and its effect on Health literacy in regards to
diabetes and renal disease in urban and reservation-based American Indians.
Pre-Eclampsia biomarkers in Native Women with Dysglycemia Tobacco Sessation in
Native communities.
Research Interests
Primarily my focus is on future disease prevention through
increasing health literacy in Native Youth.
Stolle, Darrell, EdD
University of Montana College of Education & Human Sciences
darrell.stolle@umontana.edu
Projects
-AGILE: Assessment Guided Instruction in Learning Environments -Trauma, Native Children and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network
Research Interests
Interventions for Child Traumatic Stress and Traumatic Grief in Native American communities Schools as a therapeutic context
Thomas, Lisa, PhD
Tlingit
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, University of Washington
Projects
PI, Native Pathways to Sobriety, NIDA (1R01DA029002-01); PI, Native Healing and Wellness Conference NCMHD (2R13MD002247-02); Co-I, Healing of the Canoe NCMHD (5R24MD001764-05)
Research Interests
Health Research with Native and Tribal Communities using Community Based and Tribally Based Participatory Research approaches
Thompson, Nicole, PhD
Research Interests
American Indian and Alaska Native Early Childhood Education; American Indian and Alaska Native Teacher Preparation; Professional Development for Teachers of American Indian and Alaska Native Young Children; Middle Level Education; Middle Level Teacher Preparation; Middle Level Preservice Teachers and their Understandings of Diverse Issues; and for both American Indian and Alaska Native Students and Middle Level Students--The Formation of Relationships with their Teachers.
Treharne, Gareth, PhD
Welsh
Department of Psychology, University of Otago
gtreharne@psy.otago.ac.nz
Projects
I am currently
co-supervising a Master's student's research into the views on hauora (health
and well-being) held by children who identify as Māori (native people of
Aotearoa/New Zealand). The project involves photo-elicitation interviews.
Research Interests
My research interests are
in health psychology, health inequalities relating to sexual orientation and
ethnicity, the role of causal attributions for health and illness, qualitative
research, and researcher reflexivity (awareness of our roles in research).
Tsethlikai, Monica, PhD
Zuni Pueblo
Department of Psychology, University of Utah
Projects
Cognitive mechanisms of self-regulation and memory in children.
Research Interests
Constructive memory processes and social cognition; individual differences; cultural aspects of cognitive development.
Twemlow, Stuart, MD
Maori
Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine
Vraniak, Damian, PhD
Projects
123Mystery for Teachers; Upper St. Croix River Watershed Environmental (USWE) Charter School Initiative
Research Interests
Currently I am working with teachers in the local public and tribal schools at the primary and elementary school levels, in terms of "dualizing" classroom teaching methods, using my 123Mystery process and materials. The relevant core constructs in this approach I have termed 'paired-learning', 'paired-cognition', 'dyadic intelligence' and 'entangled cognition', all embedded in a "pairing-into-partnering" process of forming highly efficient small learning groups within classrooms by pairing students and shifting who is paired with whom over time. We have field-tested training materials for teachers and materials for students over the past several years at increasingly earlier grade levels.
Walkup, John, MD
Center for American Indian Health, Johns Hopkins
Walls, Melissa, PhD, MA
Couchiching First Nation, Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe
Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Medical School-Duluth
alls@d.umn.eduResearch Interests
Indigenous Health, Mental Health & Translational Community-Based Participatory Research
Watson, Malcolm, PhD
Phychology Department, Brandeis University
West, Amy, PhD
Southern Cheyenne
University of Illinois at Chicago
awest@psych.uic.eduProjects
1. Psychosocial Treatment for Pediatric Bipolar Disorder, funded by a K23 from NIMH: a randomized clinical trial of a family-based psychosocial intervention for children with bipolar disorder. 2. American Indian Center of Chicago Circles of Care, funded by SAMHSA: an infrastructure development grant to support the development of a community-based, culturally-relevant model system of mental health service delivery for Native youth and families in Chicago
Research Interests
The prevention and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders in children, culturally-based intervention development, suicide prevention.
Wexler, Lisa, PhD
Projects
NSF: Collaborative Research: Investigating Indigenous Circumpolar Pathways into Adulthood Suicide Prevention with Alaska Native Communities in Northwest Alaska
Research Interests
Cultural identity and wellbeing/resilience Qualitative research-Community Based Participatory Suicide Prevention in Tribal Communities
Whitbeck, Leslie
Whitesell, Nancy Rumbaugh, PhD
Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health (CAIANH), Colorado School of Public Health (CSPH), University of Colorado Denver (UCD)
nancy.whitesell@ucdenver.eduResearch Interests
Early
adolescent substance use prevention, early childhood prevention in the context
of tribal home visiting and Head Start/Early Head Start programs, culture and
development (especially identity development), effects of stress and
trauma on development
Whitmore, Corrie, PhD
Wimsatt, Maureen, MSW
University of Maryland
wimsattm@umd.edu
Yazzie-Mintz, Tarajean, EdD
Program Officer of the Wakanyeja ECE Initiative
American Indian College Fund
tyazzie-mintz@collegefund.org