American Indian or Alaska Native

NIMHD’s Conversations with Researchers Engaging With Communities

November is Native Amerian Heritage Month. As we celebrate the significant contributions to America—from its history through present day and beyond—by people who represent American Indian and Alaska Native communities, we’re recognizing researchers who are promoting health equity through their community-engaged research.

NIMHD’s Conversations with Researchers Engaging With Communities

November is Native Amerian Heritage Month. As we celebrate the significant contributions to America—from its history through present day and beyond—by people who represent American Indian and Alaska Native communities, we’re recognizing researchers who are promoting health equity through their community-engaged research.

A new study finds that a home-based phone intervention improved uptake of guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) for Navajo patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, or the inability to pump enough blood into the body.

Like many Native American communities, Osage Nation experienced involuntary removal from their traditional homeland and resettled in what are now known as Tribal reservations—the Tribal reservation

Hundreds of postbac fellows recently filled the Natcher Conference Center for NIH’s 2024 Postbac Poster Day. Among them were 11 NIMHD early-career researchers already advancing understanding of minority health and health disparities research.

Given estimates of a fivefold increase in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) diagnoses among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) people by 2060, researchers in a new NIMHD study examined whether social determinants of health (SDOH) account for these disparities. SDOH are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age that are known to drive health outcomes. Evidence of SDOH is essential to improving health and advancing health equity.

For the first time, firearm-related deaths exceeded motor vehicle collisions as the leading cause of death for U.S. youth across all racial and ethnic groups in 2020, according to an analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) mortality data by researchers at NIMHD.