Reflections on Dr. Donald A.B. Lindberg and Native Voices.

Personal reflections on Donald A.B. Lindberg M.

Reflections on Dr. Donald A.B. Lindberg and Native Voices.

Personal reflections on Donald A.B. Lindberg M.

Public health and health professional education at a tribal college: a collaborative immersion program in rural North Dakota.

Introduction: Native Americans have some of the worst health outcomes of any minority group in the USA, and are severely under-represented in the health professional workforce. From 2009 to 2015, partners from a tribal college in rural North Dakota and academic institutions in New York collaborated to create a program wherein non-Native health professionals traveled to the reservation to teach a summer course to Native students. This study assessed the impact of the program on both the Native students who took the course and the non-Native health professionals who taught the course.

Developing capacity for the American Indian health professional workforce: an academic-community partnership in Spirit Lake, North Dakota.

Background: American Indians/Alaskan Native (AIAN) populations experience significant disparities in health when compared to the average US population who are under-represented in the health care professional workforce. Current research suggests that racial concordance between patients and providers has a positive effect on patient care.

Objective: We describe a successful academic-community partnership between a tribal college, a local state academic center, an urban public health institution, and an urban academic center all aligned with the goal to increase AIAN health care professional capacity.