Set the Table
Interdisciplinary
English - October 02, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 89 MB - ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsMedicine Health & Fitness Alternative Health Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Cal and Cathy welcome Dr. Gayle Dine'Chacon, founder of the Center for Native American Health (CNAH) and former Surgeon General for the Navajo Nation. It's about sovereignty, relationships, and awareness of our connection to each other.
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Dr. Dine'Chacon will be one of the speaker at Just Care: Social Justice in Health Care, October 9-10. Learn more here: https://www.healwell.org/just-care-2021
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About Our Guest:
Gayle Dine’Chacon, M. D. is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation. She is a Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine (UNMSOM), where she founded the Center for Native American Health (CNAH). She served as Surgeon General for the Navajo Nation and was a member of the Advisory Council for the Office of Minority Health, US Department of Health and Human Services.
Currently, she is the Executive Director of the Native American Budget and Policy Institute (NABPI) in the UNM Center for Social Policy which analyzes research and budget policies in areas of health, education and environmental justice for our native children, families and communities.