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

AASTEC Success Story: January 2018

Tribal Healthy Homes Project BACKGROUND To help address indoor radon concerns and to establish a baseline of general housing conditions, two northern pueblo communities ...
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UIHI Success Story: December 2017

Creating Culturally Adapted Resources on PrEP American Indians/Alaska Natives (AI/AN) are disproportionately affected by HIV. The CDC reported that HIV diagnoses increased in AI/AN ...
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Call for Tribal Success Stories

Tribal nations are active and important contributors to public health, and tribal cultures have long fostered health and wellness among American Indians/Alaska Natives (AI/AN) ...
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USET TEC Success Story: November 2017

Starting to Quit By: Angela Snell SUMMARY Poarch Band of Creek Indians (PBCI) Tribal Nation was able to focus on their tobacco cessation program ...
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ANEC Success Story: October 2017

Improving Patient-Provider Communication Clear and effective communication is important in the health care setting. The “Teach-back” method is an evidence-based strategy health care providers ...
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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

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
Healing Our California Tribal Communities

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

Oral Health Surveillance
Bike Safety
Sharing the Road
Strategic Planning
CASPER Workshop

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

Oklahoma Area Tribal Epidemiology Center

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

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 EpiCentersMonday, March 27th, 2023 at 5:28pm

We are so excited to highlight all the great work that happens at Tribal Epidemiology Centers across the country! Stay tuned over the next few months for a series of success stories from TECs and their member Tribes.

First up is the School Food Institute with Rocky Mountain TEC. In 2022, the Rocky Mountain Tribal Epidemiology Center (RMTEC) formally partnered with the Chef Ann Foundation, No Kid Hungry, and the Coalition to End Childhood Hunger to bring a comprehensive diabetes prevention approach to the Tribal schools in the RMTEC region. With the help and expertise of these partners, RMTEC aims to transform Tribal school food programs at the local level through diabetes education and training of school food service workers. The RMTEC School Food Institute sponsors a set of online courses offered by the Chef Ann Foundation that provides professional development and training on successful “scratch-cook” operations in schools, giving school food service professionals the tools and knowledge to make fresh, healthy school meals for its students and staff. In April 2022, RMTEC staff and staff from the Chef Ann Foundation visited the Blackfeet and Flathead Tribal sites to provide onsite scratch-cook training. The chefs trained school food service staff on making simple, healthy meals with fresh ingredients and served the meals in the schools. Staff also received education and training on using locally available ingredients. RMTEC hopes to expand these partnerships to include all Tribal sites in the Rocky Mountain region over the next few years.

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