Tag: Heather Dreifuss

Indigenous Summer Enhancement Program (ISEP) program featured in NAU Review

ld583 | June 10, 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

Navajo Native American Research Center for Health Partnership (NARCH) program, ISEP, featured in Navajo-Hopi Observer

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A one-week summer training program, Indigenous Summer Enhancement Program, (ISEP), developed by Northern Arizona University and Diné College is helping to guide and develop Native American high school students toward a career in public health… Read more

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

ld583 | April 7, 2022

Resilient teamwork: partners adapt summer program during COVID

ld583 | July 20, 2021

When the COVID-19 pandemic closed businesses and eliminated most summer programs in Arizona last year, a team from Diné College and Northern Arizona University’s Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) quickly pivoted to an online curriculum for Diné students in two longtime summer education programs… Read more

Summer public health program successfully prepares Diné students for public health careers

ld583 | March 19, 2021

Twenty years ago, Diné College Professor Mark Bauer started a Summer Research Enhancement Program (SREP) to provide Diné students with a hands-on public health research experience in their own hometown communities across the Navajo Nation… Read more