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Disparities Affecting Children among the American Indian Communities

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Objectives
Identify challenges in American Indian children face in their communities with providing evidence-based research.
Define community-based participatory research.
Apply effective approaches while using community-based participatory research to address health disparities.

References
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Speaker(s): Christine Daley, PhD, MA, SM
Speaker(s) Bio
Dr. Daley is a medical anthropologist with additional training in public health and a strong focus on applied research and community-based interventions. Her major areas of research focus on the reduction of health disparities in Native North America through primarily cancer control and prevention, cross-cultural communication in the health care setting and via technology, and the intersection of qualitative and quantitative ethnographic data collection and analyses.  She has additional interests in health literacy, traditional medical beliefs surrounding cancer, disease in human evolution, and children with special needs. Her most notable previous research was with the Fort Apache Indian community in Arizona, where she helped to bring the Well Woman Health check Program, a program of mobile breast and cervical cancer screening.

Dr. Daley is a member of several professional organizations including the American Anthropological Association, the Society for Medical Anthropology, the Society for Applied Anthropology, the American Public Health Association, the National Association for Native American Studies, the American Association for the History of Medicine, and the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco.  Locally, she is a member of the Kansas Public Health Association and an associate member of the Kansas Masonic Cancer Research Institute.  She serves as a board member for the American Indian Heartland Cancer Network and is active in various community activities serving this population.

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