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“Our mission is to eliminate health disparities and improve the quality of life of American Indians and Alaska Natives by supporting Northwest Tribes in their delivery of culturally appropriate, high quality healthcare.”
CURING HEPATITIS C
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a chronic infection that can cause liver damage and liver cancer. About 20,000 persons die from HCV each year. Hepatitis C is a preventable and curable disease. Learn how our IHS, Tribal and Urban Indian (I/T/U) primary care clinics are proving that hepatitis c is treatable in our own communities, by our own providers.
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Newly released: Data brief on drug and alcohol deaths among Northwest AI/AN
Pleased to Present
Tribal Disease Detectives: Contact Tracing Training
June 29, 10:30 Monday Pacific Time
Register for This Training:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JuneContactTracing
Recommended Pretraining Video
Principles of Contact Tracing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf7m32pgsMI
NPAIHB Statement of Solidarity with BLM: Click image below to read
COVID-19: Click image below to learn more
Funding Opportunities:
FY2021 Env. Health Hazards and Disasters.sub-awards RFA.pdf
Natural Disasters – Get the Flyer
The Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board (NPAIHB) Environmental Public Health Program will consult with Tribes to identify the environmental health hazards associated with disasters, document and distribute lessons-learned on your responses to the disasters, and provide technical assistance on disasters. Tribes will incorporate traditional ecological knowledge in understanding the environmental health hazards associated with disasters.
FY2021 Env. Health Hazards and Well Water.sub-awards RFA.pdf
Water and Well Funding – Get the Flyer
Funded applicants will build and strengthen the capacity of Tribes to identify, evaluate, and improve domestic well water safety programs. NPAIHB proposes to fund and train staff at three Tribes to identify all private drinking water wells, conduct screening sampling for contaminants, and perform risk assessments for improving wellhead protection.
Tribal Researchers’ Cancer Control Fellowship Program Flyer
2021 TRCCFP Application Fill-in (docx)
Fall/Winter 2020 NARCH e-NEWS!
Contact:
Ashley Thomas, MPH
Program Manager
NW Native American Research Center for Health
Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board
2121 SW Broadway
Portland, OR 97201
athomas@npaihb.org
IN THE NEWS
Oregon Tribes dental health aide therapy pilot project in the news.
HEALTH NEWS & NOTES April 2021
Learn more about the Programs at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board.
See more about the good work that’s going on!
Tribal Digest Publication Issue 254
Good Health and Wellness in Indian Country
TRIBAL RESOURCE DIGEST
DEVELOPING STRONG PARTNERSHIPS TO PRESERVE TRIBAL INTERESTS
Made up of all forty-three federally recognized tribes in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, NPAIHB advocates tribal sovereignty through government-to-government relations. We develop relationships with state offices and other agencies dealing with health matters to assure that tribal interests are taken into account as health policy is formulated.
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Administering health research and projects serving Northwest Tribes since 1997.
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