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Published November 14th, 2013

 

NDSU’s Master of Public Health program offers only American Indian specialization in the U.S.

Read this student focused story on the NDSU main webpage.


MPH Student, Jamie Holding Eagle
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1st Group of Paper Presentations

Today, the very first group of NDSU MPH students delivered their presentations as a component of the MPH requirements. They were fantastic! It is obvious that all of them are going to be exceptional public health professionals.

From the left: Saurav Dahal, Nick Cain Jr., Erin Loeb, Kelsey Folkert and Jordyn Wallenborn

Dr. Warne (back center) with his first group of graduates

North Dakota Compass: ASK A RESEARCHER

Fargo-Moorhead American Indian Community-Sponsored Health Needs Assessment

The following is an excerpt from the full interview of Assistant Professor, Donna Grandbois, published in the November 2013 North Dakota Compass. The full interview can be found here.

Q:  What is the Fargo-Moorhead American Indian Community-Sponsored Health Needs Assessment?
In response to the lack of sufficient data to determine the unmet needs of urban Indian families in the Fargo-Moorhead Metro area, I, as Principal Investigator, and Jaclynn Wallette, as Co-investigator, in collaboration with the Native community, approached the Fargo Native American City Commission to request funding to conduct the needs assessment survey. The Commission granted the funds to conduct the survey, which was a part of the larger survey conducted by the Greater Fargo-Moorhead Community Health Needs Assessment Collaborative. In an effort to build community capacity, six members of the Native community are now IRB certified by NDSU, enabling the community to replicate a needs assessment survey at their discretion.  

Donna Grandbois is an assistant professor of nursing at NDSU. She is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Nation, Belcourt, ND and is one of the three core faculty in the Master of Public Health American Indian Specialization. She addresses questions relating to the Fargo-Moorhead American Indian Community-Sponsored Health Needs Assessment.

NDSU @ the APHA's 141st Annual Meeting in Boston

On the Closing Panel: APHA Blog (http://aphaannualmeeting.blogspot.com/)

Donna Grandbois presenting her research

NDSU's first booth at an APHA conference!

Closing Panel

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Closing session challenges public health workers to ‘move this nation forward’ 

(see full article here)

As he sat on the panel of speakers at the Closing Session of this year’s APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition, Donald Warne told a story.

Three sisters were walking along the river, when they saw a group of babies in the water. One sister jumped in to save the babies. 

One sister said, “We need to teach these babies to swim.”

The third sister kept walking up the river. When the others called to her, she said, “I’m going to find out who’s throwing these babies in the water and I’m going to stop them.”

He paused. 

“That’s public health.
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