When the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced recently that it would not be approving a permit required to continue construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, Becky Plumage had a special reason to celebrate. She was one of four Brown School students who traveled in October to the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation in North […]
The Indian Health Service entered into Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) with Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Michigan in an effort to advance the recruitment, retention and development of behavioral health clinicians in Indian Country. Through the MOU, the Indian Health Service and the two universities will collaborate in bringing American Indian […]
Orientation program focuses on caring for underprivileged patients With no dabbling, first-year students at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis plunged into the realities of health-care disparities during a four-day orientation in August. The 124 students analyzed life expectancy and health disparities, such as gun violence rates by St. Louis ZIP codes, discovering […]
Graphic cigarette labels could be effective at reducing smoking rates in American Indian/Alaska Natives (AI/AN) communities, according to research from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. At 36 percent, the rate of smoking in AI/AN communities is twice the national average. Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in those communities. Researchers, led […]