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Mapping the values, needs, and priorities of expectant and new mothers and families in Northwest Alaska.
Evaluating the impact of an infant and early childhood mental health program in Northwest Alaska.
Assessing the role of subsistence foods in Alaska Native health promotion and care.
Publications →
Achieving rural health equity requires patients, health workers, family caregivers, and researchers to work together to translate new knowledge into health systems and clinical care.
Alaska Natives have long held state-conferred health rights, but health care disparities persist. Social determinants of heath and socialization for scarcity suggest why.
New approaches to primary care are on the rise. One tribal health system is working towards health equity by addressing the social determinants of health through primary care.
Siamit faculty Lucas Trout describes three care innovations in the Alaska Tribal Health System with broad implications for global primary care.
Siamit is working to move social medicine education beyond the preclinical curriculum and into rural Alaska hospitals, clinics, and communities.
Health communications technologies have played a big role in changing arctic lives, lands, and cultures.
Centering Iñupiaq values, strengthening patient-provider relationships, and investing in community-based social supports can contribute to improved reproductive health outcomes.
Siamit faculty Ashley Weisman and Lucas Trout describe the role of academic-tribal health partnerships in responding to the Covid-19 pandemic in rural Alaska.
Siamit faculty Donna May Kimmaliardjuk speaks to the state and future of Inuit health through a doctor’s sort of analogy: parasitism and the immune response.
Rural Alaska health workers seek footing to redress a suicide crisis that many ascribe to colonialism itself. In the end, a single question: What is care, anyways?
What happens when community members, health workers, and researchers partner to develop suicide prevention tools grounded in an ethics of decoloniality.
Climate change is felt deeply in the Alaskan arctic, with impacts blurring the lines between cultural, economic, environmental, and physical health.
Siamit research fellow Cassidy Kramer joined Dwight Schrute to discuss the impacts of climate change on her home, family, and future.
Siamit is featured in a Cambridge Partners podcast about the state and future of rural health.
Siamit resident Victoria Kliewe argues that expanding community health worker programs is key to addressing Indigenous health disparities.
As the world battles the deadly coronavirus, there is a lot we can learn from one of the great pandemics of recent centuries: tuberculosis.
Keats fellow Teressa Baldwin speaks to historical trauma and healing as Inupiat in the wake of revelations about Alaska’s boarding school program.
Researchers from Harvard and the University of Michigan studied how human rights approaches to mental health could be applied to suicide prevention.