8:30 am - 9:00 am

9:00 am - 10:00 am

Keynote Address:
"Research History and Collaboration on the Navajo Nation"

10:15 am - 11:45 am

Morning Session 1

A: Environmental Exposure

"Possible environmental exposures to uranium from sheep"

"Environmental uranium exposure in the southwest region of the Navajo Nation"

"Water issues in the southwestern Navajo Reservation"

Kalvin White, PhD

Lydia Edgewater, Jani Ingram

Jani Ingram

Tommy Rock, Jani Ingram

B: Medicine-Cancer Screening

"Survey of barriers to breast cancer screening among Navajo Nation women"

"Navajo Tribal Fair survey on colorectal cancer screening knowledge"

"Analysis of Cancer screening data for the Navajo Nation Breast and Cervical Cancer Program"

Bonnie Duran, DrPH

Sally Joe

Priscilla Sanderson

Sylvia Brown

C: Behavioral Health-Navajo youth

"The health and well-being of the children and youth of Hardrock Chapter"

"In-home prevention of substance abuse risk in Native teen families: Alcohol and drug use among expectant teens in Navajo communities"

"In-home prevention of substance abuse risk in Navajo teen families: Evaluating the impact of a paraprofessional-delivered home visiting program on health and behavior outcomes of Navajo teen mothers and children"

Jan Beals

Xenia King,
Bernice Bert

Trudy Billy
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Felicia Frizzell,
Kate McCalmont

A: Diné Network for Environmental Health (DiNEH)

"Evaluating partnerships in environmental health: Initial learning from the DiNEH Project"

"Water Quality: Findings from the DiNEH Project"

"The potential of geochemical surveys is assessing risk"

Elvira Emerson

Alexis Kaminsky
s

Chris Shuey

Jamie DeLemos, Margaret Manache

B: Diabetes Prevention

"Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study (DPPOS)"

"DPPOS--Type 2 Diabetes effects"

"Diabetes in Navajo youth: The Navajo-SEARCH for diabetes in youth study"

Spero Manson

Carol Percy, Cathy Manus, Miranda Smart
Cathy Manus, Carol Percy

Dana Dabelea, Joquetta D. DeGroat, Lisa Testaverde

C: Shandiin Project: Help-seeking and Historical Consciousness

"Seeking help for alcohol and drug problems: Findings from the Shandiin Project"

"Suicidality and help-seeking in two American Indian tribes"

"Historical consciousness among two American Indian tribes"

Bonnie Duran

Jan Beals
s

Stacey Freedenthal

Lori Jervis

A: Dine Network for Environmental Health (DiNEH)

"Use of community surveys in the development of water quality exposure models"

"Risk for cardiovascular and kidney disease: Association with uranium exposure"

"Early detection and surveillance of kidney disease"

Elvira Emerson

Bess Seschillie, Thomas Manning, Sarah Adeky

Johnnye Lewis
a

Johnnye Lewis

B: Pneumococcal Disease

"Pneumococcal colonization in Navajo families in the Prevnar area"

"Pneumococcal disease reductions among Navajo in the PCV7 era"

"Immunogenicity of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine among Navajo Infants"

Evelina Woody

Carol Tso

Lori Samuel

Raymond Reid

C: Adult Well-being

"An exploratory study of well-being in middle aged Navajo women living on the Navajo Nation"

"Strong marriages for Navajo couples"

"Panic attacks and panic disorder in the American Indian community"

Jan Beals

Jane Weilert
a

Lou Mueller, Linda Skogrand

Craig Sawchuk, Spero Manson

8:15 am - 8:30 am

NNHRRB Research Panel

• Bonnie Duran, DrPH
• Jan Beals, PhD
• Jani Ingram, PhD
• Raymond Reid, MD
  
• Mark Bauer (Facilitator)

A: Environment

"Relationship of indoor and ambient air quality to respiratory diseases in the Navajo Nation"

"Formative research results for a food-store intervention trial on the Navajo Nation"

"Student research project on EARTH (Education and Research Toward Health)"

Kalvin White

Joseph Bunnell,
Linda Garciaa

Joel Gittelsohn
a

Myrtis Anderson

B: Diabetes and Communication

"Action for Health in Diabetes (Look AHEAD) Study"

"One year results from the Look AHEAD Study"

"Bridging the divide: Toward an understanding of patient-provider communication about traditional medicine"

Spero Manson

Cathy Manus,
Christina Tomchee,
Katie Toledo

Andrew Sussman

C: Navajo Youth; Knowledge and behaviors of Navajo Nation employees

"Stress and strengths among American Indian adolescents: Relationship to the development of psychological and behavioral problems"

"Teen Health Resiliency Intervention for Violence Exposure (THRIVE)"

"Traditional and contemporary cancer knowledge, Attitude and behavior survey for Navajo Nation employees"

Evelina Woody
a

Nancy Whitesell
a
a

Jessica Goodkind

Carol Goldtooth-Begay

A: Community-relevant research

"Project TRUST: Truth, responsiveness, understanding, self determination and transformation"

:Community-based intervention to promote the well-being of To’Hajiilee families through Nihii’iina”

"Returning research findings to the community: Examples from a central reservation health study"

Elvira Emerson

Jessica Goodkind
a

Jessica Goodkind
a

Roland S. Moore

B: Medical Interventions

"Adult pneumococcal disease and prevention with pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine"

"Haemophilus influenzae invasive disease among Navajo children"

"The RSV Prevention Study: A trial aiming to reduce respiratory infections among Navajo infants"

Evelina Woody

Carol Tso
a

Wanda Lefebvre

Paula Begay

C: Family Interventions

"The impact of a home-based intervention for American Indian teen parents on parenting and maternal and child health outcomes"

"The Impact of the WIC Program on the nutritional status of Navajo women and their children"

"Native American Family Intervention Project: Community-based participatory research in Ramah"

Nancy Whitesell

Brandi Cowboy
Allison Barlow

Joanne McCloskey
Melvatha Chee

Ira Burbank

POSTER PRESENTATION

"HIV prevention efforts for American Indian youth"

On-Going

Carol Williams, Julie Baldwin, Kate Brelsford, Christine Benally