Resources
Native American Heritage Month
Tribal Health Think Tank lecture Series Featuring:
Food Sovereignty, food deserts: Indigenous
Environmental Justice & Public Health: Friday, 11/15/19 @ 12:00-1:30pm
SBS West, Room 103
Navajo traditional ways of knowing:
“Legend of the Glittering World” video: Thursday, 11/21/19 @ 12:00-1:30pm
SAS Conference room 402
Indigenous Well-being: Leveraging the
Intersections of Disability, Culture, and Sport: Monday, 11/25/19 @ 11:00-12:30pm
Native American Cultural Center – Gathering Hall
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Currently funded projects
Full Projects
- Helicobacter pylori and Stomach Cancer Among Native Americans in Northern Arizona
- Nitric Oxide in the Tumor Microenvironment of Triple Negative Breast Cancer
Pilot Projects
- Improving Shared Decision-Making about Cancer Screening Among American Indian Women Experiencing Intellectual Disabilities
- Viewing Native American Cervical Cancer Disparities through the Lens of the Vaginal Microbiome
Past funded projects
- Restoring Balance: Physical Activity and Cancer Among Native American Cancer Survivors
- Namitunatya: A Pilot Study to Assess Appropriateness of Male-Focused Native Patient Navigator and Mobile Phone Technology to Increase Preventive Care and Cancer Screenings for Hopi Men
- Disruption of Endocrine Pathways by Environmental Arsenic and Development of Estrogen Receptor-Negative Breast Cancer
- Microbes, Bile Acids, and Colorectal Cancer
- Functional genetic variants as modifiers of prostate cancer progression in Native Americans
- Physical Activity and Cancer among Native American Cancer Survivors
- Prostate Cancer Risk: Role of Genetic Variation in the microRNA Stress Response to Arsenic Exposure
- Molecular Mechanism in Thrombospondin-1 Mediated Angiogenesis
- Cancer Risk Factors and Screening Behaviors of the Hopi Tribe