Rachel Steinberg

Title: Research Associate II

Location: Duluth, MN

Biography

Rachel joined the Center for Indigenous Health’s Great Lakes Hub in Duluth, MN in November 2021. As a Research Associate II, she currently serves as the Family Health Coach Coordinator for the Together Overcoming Diabetes (TOD) study and as Data Manager for the TOD, Healing Pathways, and Gii’igoshimong studies.

Rachel is committed to working in partnership with Indigenous communities to achieve health equity, with a focus on culture, resilience, and the social determinants of health. She prefers to use community-based participatory research, social epidemiology, and mixed methods approaches that make space for diverse ways of knowing, as well as analyses that encompass a range of individual, interpersonal, community, environmental, structural, and historical influences on health.

Rachel received her MPH in epidemiology from the Colorado School of Public Health in 2020. Her areas of research interest include food systems and food sovereignty; diabetes prevention and management; substance use prevention, treatment, and recovery; and the ways that culture, language, and spirituality contribute to wellbeing. Outside of work, Rachel enjoys gardening, baking, hiking, and playing the mandolin.