Big Data, Precision Medicine, Research and Resilience in Southeast Indian Country Symposium

This virtual symposium will feature keynote speaker Māui Hudson, HBSc, AIT, MHSc, AUT (Whakatöhea), associate professor, director, Te Kotahi Research Institute, University of Waikato, New Zealand.

Speakers will include:

• Amy Locklear Hertel, JD, MSW (Lumbee and Coharie), executive vice provost, UNC-Chapel Hill
• Joseph Yracheta, DrPH (Pūrepecha-Mexican Indigenous), executive director, Native BioData Consortium
• Jada Lynn Brooks, PhD, MSPH, RN, FAAN (Lumbee), associate professor and Ross distinguished term scholar of psychiatric-mental health nursing, UNC-CH
• Matthew Anderson, PhD (Eastern Cherokee descent), assistant professor, microbiology and microbial infection and immunity, principal investigator, Anderson Lab, Ohio State University
• Keolu Fox, PhD (Kānaka Maoli – Native Hawaiian), assistant professor, Anthropology and Global Health Program, University of California San Diego
• Debra Mathews, PhD, MA, associate professor, department of genetic medicine, assistant director for science programs, Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University
• Danielle Hiraldo, PhD, MPA (Lumbee), tribal outreach specialist, senior researcher, University of Arizona

SCHEDULE:

8:45 a.m. – Welcome and offering

9–11:30 a.m. – Speakers and panel

12–1 p.m. – STEAM Native student network (all welcome, no borders)

1:15 p.m. – KEYNOTE speaker

2–3:30 p.m. – Tribal conversation with regional health leaders

REGISTER HERE