January 4, 2011
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Issue Brief
Under its Advancing Public Health Policy and Practice solicitation, RWJF funded 16 projects and the Center for Creative Leadership produced Knowledge Assets that synthesize the work and learnings from these projects.
July 17, 2013
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Program Results Report
United South and Eastern Tribes’ Tribal Epidemiology Center developed an Internet-based system for reporting community health that provides comparative population statistics to tribal health leaders who address public health concerns.
October 1, 2003
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Program Results Report
The Cherokee Nation tribal health department established a project designed to enhance the protective factors that would help keep young people away from substance abuse.
January 1, 2003
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Book
This chapter of the Anthology focuses on one city trying to address what seemed like an intractable problem. In the 1970s and 1980s, Gallup, N.M. had a frighteningly high rate of alcohol abuse, mostly because of heavy drinking among Native Americans coming to town from the surrounding reservations.
January 1, 2011
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Book
In this chapter of the Anthology, award-winning journalist Sara Solovitch chronicles the history of dental therapists and dental aides in Alaska.
January 4, 2011
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Report
Knowledge Asset: This document focuses on the importance of policies that include tribes in a comprehensive multijurisdictional public health system that can address infectious disease outbreaks.
December 5, 2011
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Story
Redesigning a health care system to increase access and quality in a state facing some of the greatest insurance coverage issues in the nation is a former Health Policy Fellow's latest challenge.
July 1, 2003
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Program Results Report
Northwest New Mexico Fighting Back worked to reduce the demand for alcohol and other drugs in San Juan, McKinley and Cibola counties, a 15,000 square mile region with a large Native American population.
September 10, 2007
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Program Results Report
Native Americans suffer disproportionately compared with other groups in the United States from diseases and death due to alcohol, drugs and substance abuse.
February 1, 2012
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Issue Brief
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has important implications for American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN), including the expansion of Medicaid coverage to nearly 400,000 currently uninsured AI/AN individuals. This brief prepared by CHCS and NASHP out ...