Urban Indian Leader to Speak at White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health

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Tune in TODAY: Urban Indian Leader to Speak at White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health – NCUIH Walter Murillo (Choctaw), NCUIH President-Elect and CEO of NATIVE Health, will speak on addressing barriers to access for nutrition and health services for the urban Indian community. NCUIH Contact: Meredith Raimondi, Vice-President of Public Policy, mraimondi@ncuih.org, 202-417-7781 WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 28,…
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ASU Summer Camp helps Native American High School Students Explore Health Careers

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ASU summer camp helps Native American high school students explore health careers As part of ASU’s INSPIRE Summer Camp, a group of high school students spent a week with @asuhealth, learning skills like healthy cooking and how to intubate a patient. The camp is designed to help expose Native American students to career options and college life.

Why Indigenous people in cities feel ‘invisible’ as pandemic wears on

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Why Indigenous people in cities feel ‘invisible’ as pandemic wears on Like many other communities of color, Indigenous people across America have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus because of historical health disparities, lack of basic resources in some parts of the country and poorly funded Indigenous health care. Navajo Nation, the largest American tribe with more than 300,000 members,…
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