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Nearly half of the Native American population in the US lives in western states where there are an estimated 161,000 abandoned hardrock mines—including > 4,000 abandoned uranium mines. Because of their reliance on natural resources, these tribal communities have direct and frequent contact with metal mixtures through inhalation, drinking water, and eating food. Those exposures are exacerbated by disparities in infrastructure and unique social determinants of health from poverty in rural and isolated locations.
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That’s the rationale behind the $1.5 million award to the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center in Albuquerque to establish a Center for Native American Health Equity Research.effort by the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA) and National Institutes of Health (NIH). The center will tackle those pervasive environmental health disparities with primary biomedical and environmental research and Native American-focused community engagement, says NIH.
The partners in the center are 3 University research programs and the Navajo, Sioux and Crow nations, with plans to expand to a fourth tribal region later. Together they will address research priorities such as examining the distribution of contaminants, cultural practices, and genetic origins of the 3 core tribes to provide a basis for “sorting out the health effects” of metal mixtures in tribal communities.
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The program also will build the research capacity, understanding of data, and interpretation and use of biomedical results across those communities, as well as developing a framework that characterizes the unique exposure pathways, EPA says. Ultimately, the hope is that the research will help define health from a perspective that not only reflects tribal perceptions, but is useful in informing regulatory decision making.
Nearly half of the Native American population in the US lives in western states where there are an estimated 161,000 abandoned hardrock mines—including > 4,000 abandoned uranium mines. Because of their reliance on natural resources, these tribal communities have direct and frequent contact with metal mixtures through inhalation, drinking water, and eating food. Those exposures are exacerbated by disparities in infrastructure and unique social determinants of health from poverty in rural and isolated locations.
Related: Reducing Health Disparities With Performance Management
That’s the rationale behind the $1.5 million award to the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center in Albuquerque to establish a Center for Native American Health Equity Research.effort by the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA) and National Institutes of Health (NIH). The center will tackle those pervasive environmental health disparities with primary biomedical and environmental research and Native American-focused community engagement, says NIH.
The partners in the center are 3 University research programs and the Navajo, Sioux and Crow nations, with plans to expand to a fourth tribal region later. Together they will address research priorities such as examining the distribution of contaminants, cultural practices, and genetic origins of the 3 core tribes to provide a basis for “sorting out the health effects” of metal mixtures in tribal communities.
Related: Unraveling the Causes of Breast Cancer Disparities
The program also will build the research capacity, understanding of data, and interpretation and use of biomedical results across those communities, as well as developing a framework that characterizes the unique exposure pathways, EPA says. Ultimately, the hope is that the research will help define health from a perspective that not only reflects tribal perceptions, but is useful in informing regulatory decision making.
Nearly half of the Native American population in the US lives in western states where there are an estimated 161,000 abandoned hardrock mines—including > 4,000 abandoned uranium mines. Because of their reliance on natural resources, these tribal communities have direct and frequent contact with metal mixtures through inhalation, drinking water, and eating food. Those exposures are exacerbated by disparities in infrastructure and unique social determinants of health from poverty in rural and isolated locations.
Related: Reducing Health Disparities With Performance Management
That’s the rationale behind the $1.5 million award to the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center in Albuquerque to establish a Center for Native American Health Equity Research.effort by the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA) and National Institutes of Health (NIH). The center will tackle those pervasive environmental health disparities with primary biomedical and environmental research and Native American-focused community engagement, says NIH.
The partners in the center are 3 University research programs and the Navajo, Sioux and Crow nations, with plans to expand to a fourth tribal region later. Together they will address research priorities such as examining the distribution of contaminants, cultural practices, and genetic origins of the 3 core tribes to provide a basis for “sorting out the health effects” of metal mixtures in tribal communities.
Related: Unraveling the Causes of Breast Cancer Disparities
The program also will build the research capacity, understanding of data, and interpretation and use of biomedical results across those communities, as well as developing a framework that characterizes the unique exposure pathways, EPA says. Ultimately, the hope is that the research will help define health from a perspective that not only reflects tribal perceptions, but is useful in informing regulatory decision making.