254104 Importance of Creating an Indigenous Public Health Graduate Degree

Wednesday, November 2, 2011: 1:10 PM

Maile Taualii, PhD, MPH , Native Hawaiian Epidemiology Center, Papa Ola Lokahi, Honolulu, HI
     
As an emerging field, there is no broad consensus on the knowledge, skills, and abilities of an Indigenous public health professional. In July of 2011, the Indigenous people of Hawaii convened a small group of Indigenous health leaders to discuss three levels of competencies (community/practitioner/ academic) essential for the practice of Indigenous public health. This group, formally named the Competencies for Indigenous Public Health, Evaluation and Research (CIPHER) project, may serve as a critical juncture in public health for Indigenous people throughout the world.

The CIPHER project understands that benefits of core competencies can be utilized to mitigate indigenous health inequities by standardizing the training of indigenous public health professional and formalizing the integration of indigenous health perspectives into public health education, training and governance.

Learning Areas:
Administer health education strategies, interventions and programs
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs

Learning Objectives:
Define the discipline of Indigenous public health. Describe the skills of three different levels of practicing Indigenous public health. Provide a framework for Indigenous public health training and career development.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have worked for 15 years in the field of public health with Indigenous populations and I am the Chair of Indigenous Health at the University of Hawaii.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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