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NORTHWEST PORTLAND AREA INDIAN HEALTH BOARD & THE NORTHWEST TRIBAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTER
Victoria Warren-Mears, PhD, RDN, [email protected]
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NPAIHB Mission• Our mission is to eliminate health disparities and improve
the quality of life of American Indians and Alaska Natives by supporting Northwest Tribes in their delivery of culturally appropriate, high quality healthcare.
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Mission• The mission of the Northwest Tribal Epidemiology Center
(The EpiCenter) is to collaborate with Northwest American Indian Tribes to provide health-related research, surveillance, and training to improve the quality of life of American Indians and Alaskan Natives (AI/ANs).
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Focus• Surveillance, Research, Training and Technical
Assistance for the 43 Federally Recognized Tribes of Oregon, Washington and Idaho.
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Programs• Native American Research Centers for Health• Native Children Always Ride Safe (NATIVE CARS)• NPAIHB Immunization Project• Northwest Dental Support Center• Northwest Tribal Registry
• IDEA- NW Project
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Programs• Portland Area Indian Health Service Institutional Review
Board• Tots to ‘Tweens
• Prevention of Toddler Overweight Study (PTOTS)
• Project Red Talon• WEAVE
• Wellness for Every American Indian to View and Achieve Health Equity (Part of Good Health and Wellness in Indian Country)
• Western Tribal Diabetes Project
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Background/Overview WEAVE
• This is a 5-year award running from October 2014 through September 2019
• Overall objective is to establish or strengthen and broaden the reach and impact of effective chronic disease prevention programs that improve the health of tribal members and communities.
• With a particular focus on policy, systems and environment change (PSE), community-clinical linkages, and health system interventions
• Two “components” within the grantees• Component 1: Eleven
individual tribes funded across the nation
• Component 2: Ten Tribal Epidemiology Centers (TECs) funded
• Within the WEAVE-NW funding, five tribes have received sub-awards to do similar work as the C1 tribes, but on a smaller scale
Looking ahead…
Improving Public Health… 5- year grant will allow us to work toward improving health
inequity among AI/AN in the Pacific Northwest By provision of training, technical assistance, support and
evaluation of public health initiatives
…through Policy, Systems and Environment Enhancements
Informed by local-level tribal health status reports And Community Based participation to inform and
enhance change
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Recent Publications
Regional Community Health Profiles for Idaho, Oregon and Washington
All publication can be found on our web site at www.npaihb.org
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Accomplishments• EpiCenter staff members are actively involved in
professional activities at regional and national levels, thus contributing to increased knowledge and awareness of AI/AN health disparities and programs.
• Collaborative environment has been established among Tribal Epidemiology Center Directors to advocate collectively for key issues in Indian Country.
• Provision of more, improved region specific data to Tribes for the state level. • Tribal level reports are being rolled out at this time.
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Victoria Warren-Mears, PhD, RDN, FAND
Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board2121 SW Broadway, Suite 300; Portland, OR [email protected]
503-416-3283