Five programs at the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health have been decimated amid an estimated $2 billion in federal ...
Usha Lee McFarling is a former STAT reporter. The tiny number of Indigenous students in U.S. medical schools has long been a concern, but Native American medical leaders were taken aback to see 22% ...
The decision came within 24 hours of the funds being slashed with no warning, sending waves of panic through 2,000 ...
This year’s United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues is focusing on human, territorial, and planetary health. The Permanent Forum is in its 22nd session. A recent report, “Indigenous ...
Despite Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experiencing a higher rate of fragility fractures from low-impact ...
Arizona State University (ASU) unveiled last month the Indigenous Health Research Dashboard, an online repository aimed at improving access to health research for Indigenous populations. Spearheaded ...
Cole Allick remembers growing up on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in northern North Dakota and watching his mother struggle to navigate the overburdened and under-resourced health care system ...
You may know them as the winner of Season 7 of “The Amazing Race Canada”, but if that isn’t impressive enough, Dr. James Makokis is also a Two-Spirit family physician from the Saddle Lake Cree Nation, ...
During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Indigenous Nations across the country like mine began to feel it’s disproportionate impact on our communities. Then, we started losing the most precious ...
Simon Fraser University (SFU) and the First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to advance and implement common goals related to First Nations health and ...
Groups are joining Legacy Health to ask lawmakers to beef up the training and accreditation program for interpreters to help people access care, other services. This story was originally published by ...
This story is published as part of the Global Indigenous Affairs Desk, an Indigenous-led collaboration between Grist, High Country News, ICT, Mongabay, and Native News Online. This year’s United ...