Each Tribal Epidemiology Center has a unique mission and strives to achieve a specific set of goals. These efforts have produced many stories of accomplishment over the years.

Recent Success Stories

NEC Success Story: Renewed Data Sharing Agreement Expands Access to Vital Data

The Navajo Epidemiology Center (NEC) has renewed its data-sharing agreement with the New Mexico Department of Health, strengthening access to updated vital records and ...

CTEC Success Story: Building Capacity to Address HIV/STI/HCV

CTEC recently concluded the HIV/STI/HCV Capacity Building Project with seven Indian Health Programs. The project combined assessments of clinical and prevention practices with strategic ...

USET Success Story: New ODMAP Toolkit Strengthens Tribal Overdose Response

The USET Office of Tribal Public Health has developed a new ODMAP Toolkit, a resource designed to help Tribal Nations leverage real-time overdose surveillance ...

OKTEC Success Story: Convening Tribal Leaders to Strengthen Public Health

Guided by data from technical assistance requests, the Oklahoma Tribal Epidemiology Center (OKTEC) took meaningful steps to strengthen public health infrastructure across the region ...

TECPHI FY25 Success Story: Basic Applied Epidemiology Training

In September, the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium’s (ANTHC) Alaska Native Epidemiology Center hosted a Basic Applied Epidemiology for Public Health Workers training to ...

ANEC Success Story: Scientific Advisory Council 2025

On August 25, 2025, the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) Epidemiology Department successfully hosted its annual Scientific Advisory Council (SAC) meeting under the ...

Success Story Archives

Alaska Native Epidemiology Center

Healthy Portraits
Play Every Day
Teach-Back Training
Alaska Native Tumor Registry
Cost Principles for Federal Grants Training
Crystal Bruns, Associate Health Statistician
Alaska Native Injury Atlas
Wellness Strategies for Health
Augmented Reality
Healthy Alaskans 2030
Partnership with Dr. Charlotte Huntley
Increased CRC Screening

Albuquerque Area Southwest Tribal Epidemiology Center

Spotlight Series – Lung Health
Tribal Healthy Homes
SW Tribal Youth Project
GHWIC Program
Tribal PRAMS Project

California Tribal Epidemiology Center

Michael Mudgett
Qualitative Interviews
Good Health & Wellness in Indian Country
2019 Data, Evaluation, and Grant Writing Training
Healing Our California Tribal Communities
Investing in the future of public health
Tribal Adverse Childhood Experiences Project
Austin Boykin

Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Epidemiology Center

Smoke-Free Housing
Health Tracking
Resource Patient Management System Training

Great Plains Tribal Epidemiology Center

Racial Misclassification
Liaison Program
Diabetes Data
Criminalizing Pregnancy
Promoting Healing Through Self-Defense

Inter Tribal Council of Arizona Tribal Epidemiology Center

After Action Review Toolkit
Oral Health Surveillance
Bike Safety
Sharing the Road
Strategic Planning
CASPER Workshop
Regional Community Health Profile

Navajo Epidemiology Center

Hantavirus Study
Impact Via Radio
NEC welcomes Delores Becenti
Changing Winds

Northwest Tribal Epidemiology Center

Accurate Data
Tribal Specific BRFSS
Food Sovereignty
Defining State Health Priorities
2020 Trans and Gender-Affirming Care Strategic Vision and Action Plan
What is NativeDATA?

Oklahoma Area Tribal Epidemiology Center

Tribal Health Experiential Student Internship Seminar (THESIS)
The Caring Van
Tobacco Quitline
Portraits of Good Health and Wellness in Indian Country

Rocky Mountain Tribal Epidemiology Center

Passenger Safety
Child Health Measures
Memoranda of Understanding
A Matter of Balance
The School Food Institute

United South and Eastern Tribes Tribal Epidemiology Center

Increasing Breastfeeding
Annual Diabetes Report
Starting to Quit
2018 Area Impact Award Winner

Urban Indian Health Institute Epidemiology Center

Coordinating GHWIC
Community Health Profile
Pre-exposure Prophylaxis
MMIWG Report

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Tribal EpiCenters

Tribal EpiCentersTuesday, February 17th, 2026 at 10:49am

“The ability to understand without condemnation, accept our friends and enemies in the light of their weaknesses, is something we must acquire early in life in order to find happiness in this world.”
– Elizabeth Peratrovich

Happy Elizabeth Peratrovich Day!

Each February 16, we celebrate Elizabeth Peratrovich (Ḵaax̱gal.aat), of the Tlingit Lukaax̱.ádi clan, Raven moiety, who changed Alaska forever.

When Alaska Native peoples faced signs reading "No Dogs, No Natives" and were denied basic rights, Elizabeth stepped forward as Grand President of the Alaska Native Sisterhood. Her powerful testimony led Governor Gruening to sign America's first anti-discrimination law on February 16, 1945 – 14 years before Alaska statehood and nearly 20 years before the Civil Rights Act.

We came upon this audio recording of a 1996 gathering to celebrate Elizabeth Peratrovich: bit.ly/3HUzNwI. It's part of SHI's Southeast Native Radio Recordings Collection. Speakers include Co-Masters-of-Ceremony Richard Stitt and Ethel Lund, Alaska Native Sisterhood's Selena Everson, U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, Lt. Gov. Fran Ulmer, and Alaska Federation of Natives President Julie Kitka.

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