Data Practice Through the Lens of American Indian/Alaska Native Communities

Public Health Grand Rounds (PHGR) will continue to promote Preventive Medicine Grand Rounds (PMGR) while our monthly PHGR sessions are on hold. We welcome your questions. Please email us at grandrounds@cdc.gov

Data Practice Through the Lens of American Indian/Alaska Native Communities

The November 2022 Preventive Medicine Grand Rounds will discuss how western-based models of achieving health equity in indigenous communities must be inclusive of non-western modalities if true equity is to be achieved.

This session will focus on research and data techniques of indigenous knowledge systems used to decolonize data, which involves collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data through the perspective of Indigenous communities. Ms. Echo-Hawk will present an Indigenous framework that identifies strength-based activities and protective factors and illustrates how to describe disparities in health outcomes, behaviors, and risk factors in ways that benefit tribal communities in both rural and urban settings.

These Grand Rounds presentations are provided as a courtesy of CDC’s Preventive Medicine Residency and Fellowship (PMR/F) program with the goal of sharing systems-based approaches and leadership practices to address population health issues and public health emergencies.