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Active Bacterial Surveillance in Communities

For more than 20 years, we have helped tribes quantify the burden of serious disease caused by bacteria and monitor the impact of intervention strategies. **Sign up for our Active Bacterial Surveillance Newsletter** Public health surveillance is the continuous, systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of health-related data needed for the planning, implementation, and evaluation of

Focus Area: Infectious Disease Prevention

Associated Location(s): Chinle, AZFort Defiance, AZGallup, NMNavajo NationShiprock, NMTuba City, AZWhite Mountain ApacheWhiteriver, AZ

Causes of Pneumonia and burden of Pneumococcal Pneumonia in American Indian Adults

Understanding the Causes of Adult Pneumonia Pneumonia is a leading cause of hospitalization and death throughout the world. There are many different causes of pneumonia. In the United States, people aged 65 years and over have the highest pneumonia-related illness and death. We know that rates of pneumonia among Navajo and White Mountain Apache adults

Focus Area: Infectious Disease Prevention

Associated Location(s): Chinle, AZFort Defiance, AZGallup, NMNavajo NationShiprock, NMWhite Mountain ApacheWhiteriver, AZ

COVID-19 Pfizer Vaccine Clinical Trial

COVID-19 Pfizer Vaccine Clinical Trial  SARS-CoV-2 emerged in late 2019 and caused the global COVID-19 pandemic. Native American communities experienced among the highest rates of COVID-19 disease and death in the U.S. This study aimed to evaluate whether an investigational vaccine candidate, created by Pfizer/BioNTech, was effective in preventing COVID-19 disease. Globally, more than 44,000

Focus Area: COVID-19 Response & PreventionInfectious Disease Prevention

Associated Location(s): Chinle, AZGallup, NMNavajo NationShiprock, NMWhite Mountain ApacheWhiteriver, AZ

Evaluating Maternal Immunization Study

The flu (influenza) and whooping cough (pertussis) infection in infants can lead to serious illness and even death, particularly in very young babies. Infants cannot receive vaccines for these diseases themselves until they are several months old, but immunizing women during pregnancy can provide temporary protection against these diseases for the first few months of

Focus Area: Infectious Disease Prevention

Associated Location(s): Chinle, AZFort Defiance, AZGallup, NMNavajo NationShiprock, NMWhite Mountain ApacheWhiteriver, AZ

Haemophilus influenzae carriage among southwestern American Indian children

Haemophilus influenzae is a type of germ (bacteria) that frequently lives in the back of the nose and throat. This is a state called carriage, and it is usually harmless but sometimes the bacteria can cause serious diseases such as meningitis or pneumonia. H. influenzae are transmitted through coughing and sneezing. There are six types

Focus Area: Infectious Disease Prevention

Associated Location(s): Chinle, AZFort Defiance, AZGallup, NMNavajo NationShiprock, NMWhite Mountain ApacheWhiteriver, AZ

Haemophilus influenzae Rapid Response investigation (HiRRI)

Historically, American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) children aged <5 years have suffered from invasive H. influenzae type b (Hib) disease at rates at least 5 times higher than the general U.S. population. Following introduction of a primary series and booster dose with conjugate Hib vaccine in the late 1980s, rates of Hib disease decreased

Focus Area: Infectious Disease Prevention

Associated Location(s): Fort Defiance, AZGallup, NMShiprock, NMTuba City, AZWhiteriver, AZ