Currently Funded Investigators
Pilot Projects
Sara Buckingham, UAA
Pilot Test of a Cultural Intervention to Enhance Alaska Native Students' Behavioral
Health
Alexander Kitaysky, UAF
Surveillance for Avian Influenza in Subsistence Harvested Seabirds
Inna Rivkin, UAF
Expanding Intergenerational Dialog Exchange and Action to Promote Youth Wellness
Katie Cueva, UAA
Piloting Culturally Responsive, Community Engaged Cancer Education in the Northwest
Arctic
Stephen Vindigni ANTHC
Alaska Native Study to Stop Stomach Cancer: A Prospective Cohort of Individuals at
High Risk of Gastric Cancer
Project Development Awards
Laverne Demientieff, UAF
Re-Awakening the Spirit: Engaging in Cultural Values and Traditional Practices in
the Modern Alaskan Context
Mark Schure, MSU
Using cultural strengths to develop a trauma-informed program for improving the mental
wellbeing of the ApsAalooke People
Jennifer Shaw, SCF
Feasibility and Acceptability of Community-Based Diagnosis and Treatment for Hepatitis
C Virus (HCV) in an Urban Alaska Native and American Indian (ANAI) Population
Valerie Gifford, UAF
Use of Telebehavioral Health with Alaska Native Rural Residents: Provider Perceptions
of Strengths, Limitations, and Effectiveness
Ruby Fried UAA
Traditional Food Security and Health: Identifying Risk and Resilience Factors in St.Paul,
AK
Andrea Bersamin, UAF
Neqpiaput Inruugut (Our Food is our Medicine): Promoting Holistic Health and Well-Being Among Yup'ik Parents and Children Through the Lens of Substance.
Vanessa Simonds, MSU
Promoting Healthy Relationships among ApsAalooke Youth
Youssef Barbour, ANTHC
Assessment of Risk Factors for Rapid Progression of Liver Fibrosis in Alaska Native
Persons with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Rosalyn Singleton, ANTHC
Evaluating a New Model of Car for Neonatal Opioid Withdrawl Syndrome (NOWS) in Alaska
Hospitals
Diversity Awards
Suzanne Held and Christiane Parish, MSU
Building Healthy Relationships in the ApsAjalooke Community
Kimber Mckay, UM
Caregiver-Child Engagement and Greenspace among American Indian Children
Helen.russette@umontana.edu
Early Stage Investigator Award:
Jingjing Sun, UM
SELA: Improving Mental Health for Native American Youth Social-Emotional Learning
Neha John- Henderson, MSU
Health Mindset as a Driver of Efficacy of a Diabetes Prevention Program in the Blackfeet
Community