Overview:

Over the last three decades, PIs Dombrowski & Khan have worked with and in Native American and Arctic communities across North America on issues of health, culture, traditional lifeways, healing traditions, and community well-being.

This work has changed our teams and our outlooks on the research process. As we move into the latter half of our third decade in this work, we continue to look to the roots of our earlier years in Native American / American Indian and Inuit/Inupiat communities to help chart our way forward.

Currently our projects concerned with Native American and Aboriginal health include “Developing Effective Proximal Care to Prevent Rural Alaska Native Youth Suicide” (R34 MH096884) and “Promoting Community Conversations about Research to End Native Youth Suicide in Rural Alaska” National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health (R01 MH112458). Both of these projects are collaborations with Dr. Lisa Wexler at the University of Massachusetts. Other grants include the “Qungasvik (Toolbox): Prevention of Alcohol/Suicide Risk in Alaska Native Youth” led by our collaborator Stacy Rasmus at U Alaska Fairbanks.  Recent prior work includes “Informal Social Networks in Two Labrador Communities” funded by the National Science Foundation, Division of Arctic Social Sciences ARC-0908155. This project took place in Labrador Canada, from 2009-2013.