RAPID CITY, S.D. — Tinka Duran has been with the Great Plains Tribal Leader’s Health Board for 14 years, and was recently named the senior director of the Great Plains Epidemiology Center. Duran, member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, holds her degree in Social Science from Oglala Lakota College and a master’s in public health from the University of Nebraska Medical Center. She says the knowledge and partnerships made through those years with Great Plains have set her up well for the challenge.

By Darsha Nelson
February 9, 2022

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One of the things that the pandemic has shown is that existing inequities are magnified when confronted with an infectious disease like COVID-19. That’s certainly been the case with Native American communities in the U.S., a group whose health and welfare is often overlooked.

By Taylor McNeil
November 12, 2021

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Funds to be used to build and sustain community-based programs

Urban Indian Health Institute (UIHI) distributed $623,678 in grants to 10 Urban Indian Organizations nationwide to battle chronic disease in Indian Country. The awarded organizations will use the funds to build and sustain community-based prevention programs.

By Press Pool
November 8, 2021

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New York State is second only to Texas in its failure to collect and analyze COVID-19 data from American Indian and Alaska Native populations, according to a Urban Indian Health Institute (UIHI) study.

By Jenna Kunze
October 25, 2021

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PBS – While Gabby Petito’s death has captured national attention, tens of thousands of people are reported missing or murdered every year in the U.S. Native women are murdered at rates 10 times the national average. In Wyoming alone, 710 indigenous people were reported missing from 2011 to 2020. Amna Nawaz discusses those statistics with Abigail Echo-Hawk, director of the Urban Indian Health Institute.

By Amna Nawaz & Claire Mufson
September 27, 2021

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