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Overview

Evaluating the impact of an infant and early childhood mental health program in Northwest Alaska.

Partners

Harvard Medical School, Maniilaq Social Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital.

Team

Lucas Trout, Sagar Raju, Matt Knerr, Claire Holleman, Mohit Manchella, Tracy Hatch, Agnes Brown.

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.

Health communications technologies have played a big role in changing arctic lives, lands, and cultures.

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.