Programs

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

Bright Horizons

Brief Study Summary Background information What we are doing How this will help improve health in your community Program Manager: Novalene Goklish Contact information: ngoklis1@jhu.edu Phone: 928-338-5215/928-594-0149

Focus Area: Substance Use & PreventionYouth Development

Associated Location(s): White Mountain ApacheWhiteriver, AZ

Cancer Care Project: Addressing Disparities in Cancer Education, Care and Outcomes in Native American Communities

Project Goal The goal of this project is to work with the Navajo Nation and White Mountain Apache Tribe to reduce disparities in cancer education, care access, and outcomes among Native American families.  Our Cancer Care Project is currently developing a community-based intervention to promote breast cancer screening. Intervention development is informed by quantitative and qualitative data

Focus Area: Cancer Care & Prevention

Associated Location(s): Chinle, AZWhiteriver, 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

Celebrating Life

Based on a decade of mounting concern about an increasing youth suicide problem, the White Mountain Apache Tribe passed a tribal law mandating that any suicidal incident occurring on tribal lands including suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, suicide completions, and non-suicidal self-injury be recorded into a tribal suicide surveillance system. We have worked with the tribe

Focus Area: Mental Health PromotionSuicide Prevention

Associated Location(s): White 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