TECs in the Media

TECs in the Media

Elevated Adenomatous Polyp Detection Rate Among Alaska Native and American Indian People in Interior Alaska, 2018-2022

Sage Journals Colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence and mortality are twice as high among Alaska Native people as among non-Hispanic White people in the United ...

$4 million award funds new Center for Native American Cancer Health Equity

The NAU Review Improving cancer screening rates among Native Americans, increasing education about tribe-specific cancer trends and addressing disproportionately high exposure to carcinogenic environmental ...

Syphilis rates are soaring in South Dakota’s American Indian communities. What’s going on?

Vox The trend reveals the importance of data sharing between state, federal, and tribal health authorities. Over the last five years, syphilis transmission has ...

Tribal Epidemiology Centers: HHS Actions Needed to Enhance Data Access

GAO FAST FACTS – American Indians and Alaska Natives have worse health outcomes than the general U.S. population—such as a life expectancy that is ...
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GPTEC: A look at tribal health and those working to improve it

NewsCenter1 RAPID CITY, S.D. — Tinka Duran has been with the Great Plains Tribal Leader’s Health Board for 14 years, and was recently named ...

Bringing Attention to Native Americans Amid the Pandemic

Tufts Now One of the things that the pandemic has shown is that existing inequities are magnified when confronted with an infectious disease like ...