Tag: Amber-Rose Waters

Developing future Diné public health leaders starts with early, culturally significant exposure

ld583 | April 7, 2022

Successfully guiding Diné youth toward health and public health professions begins with two important ideas—start students in a program in high school and cultivate in them a love and understanding of their own cultural, strength-based assets… Read more

Diné College public health students provide vaccine education to Navajo Nation residents through study

ld583 | October 20, 2021

Though the Navajo Nation has been a U.S. leader in COVID-19 vaccine uptake throughout most of the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine hesitancy does exist there… Read more

Authors examine the implications of the Navajo Maternal and Child Health Needs Assessment at May 6 workshop

ld583 | May 3, 2021

For the first time, the Arizona Department of Health Services included the Navajo Nation in their 2020 Arizona Maternal Child Health Needs Assessment report, which is produced by the Bureau of Women’s and Children’s Health every five years… Read more