Dr. Gonzales is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and an Assistant Professor in the Oregon Health Science University-Portland State University joint School of Public Health. She received her PhD (2010) from Oregon State University, and completed two years post-doctorate training at the University of Colorado Denver, Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health (2013). Her work aims to understand health inequities among reservation- and urban-based American Indian (AI) populations. Her research focuses on the impact of discrimination in health care engagement and health outcomes among AIs. As an Indigenous educator, she strives to train a future public health workforce that is equipped to consider and meet the needs of AIs and other socially marginalized groups to achieve health equity. Within the new SPH she creates learning spaces that enhances the biomedical model by introducing students to teachings that center and honor the wisdom of community experience, offering students opportunities to explore the role of culture, historical-inter generational-contemporary trauma and healing within the context of the AI experience and health.
Health Behavior and Health Education Student Association (HBHESA)Lunch and Chat with Dr. Gonzales
An opportunity to speak more intimately with the speaker following previous events held during the week with Dr. Gonzalez on Decolonizing the Future Public Health Workforce
March 22, 2019
12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
2690 SPH I
1415 Washington Heights
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029
Sponsored by: Health Behavior and Health Education Student Association (HBHESA)
Contact Information: Camille McBride acmcbr@umich.edu
Dr. Gonzales is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and an Assistant Professor in the Oregon Health Science University-Portland State University joint School of Public Health. She received her PhD (2010) from Oregon State University, and completed two years post-doctorate training at the University of Colorado Denver, Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health (2013). Her work aims to understand health inequities among reservation- and urban-based American Indian (AI) populations. Her research focuses on the impact of discrimination in health care engagement and health outcomes among AIs. As an Indigenous educator, she strives to train a future public health workforce that is equipped to consider and meet the needs of AIs and other socially marginalized groups to achieve health equity. Within the new SPH she creates learning spaces that enhances the biomedical model by introducing students to teachings that center and honor the wisdom of community experience, offering students opportunities to explore the role of culture, historical-inter generational-contemporary trauma and healing within the context of the AI experience and health.
