Indigenous-led primary care clinic will save NL.'s health system millions, says First Light

First Light wants the provincial government to give $1 million a year to a new health clinic that the organization says will ...
The Conversation

Comprehensive Indigenous health care in prisons requires federal funding of community‑controlled services

Megan Williams receives funding from the Medical Research Futures Fund, the National Health and Medical Research Council, the NSW Aboriginal Land Council, Cancer Australia and Commonwealth Health. She ...
Global News

Indigenous representation in health care improving – but ‘enormous gaps’ remain

Ever since she was a little girl, Kelsey Allen dreamed of being a doctor. But the 25-year-old medical student from the Qalipu Mi’kmaq First Nation in Newfoundland knows her journey comes with barriers ...
Medicine Buffalo

Indigenous students learn about health care careers

It was August 2021 and Amanda Bahgat had just started medical school at UB. She was sitting in the required “Medicine and Society” course listening to the professor, a physician of Indigenous descent, ...
Medicine Buffalo

Indigenous students learn about health care careers from the Jacobs School and the Seneca Nation Education Department

BUFFALO, N.Y. — It was August 2021 and Amanda Bahgat had just started medical school at the University at Buffalo. She was sitting in the required “Medicine and Society” course listening to the ...
Medical Xpress

How effective is Indigenous cultural safety and anti-bias training at improving patient experience?

Researchers from Unity Health Toronto led a first-of-its kind trial in which Indigenous actors were trained to perform as patients and evaluate health care providers who completed intensive and brief ...
Fred Hutch

In research and cancer care, Indigenous representation matters

Fred Hutch, UW researchers work to reduce risk and inequities and improve access to care, resources for Indigenous communities and patients Dornell Pete’s grandparents were both diagnosed with lung ...
Lawrence Journal-World

Experts at town hall share potential for negative consequences to health care and Indigenous institutions from ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’

Panelists spoke about the impacts to Douglas County of the "One Big Beautiful" legislation passed earlier this year in during a town hall Thursday night. From left, Marissa Alcantar, Rob Chestnut and ...
Arizona Daily Star

Targeting of Indigenous communities continues despite AHCCCS reforms

Sober living program operators continue to recruit vulnerable Arizona residents into sham treatment programs and billing the ...
News Medical

Indigenous-led approaches to health care are flourishing in Canada

Innovative, Indigenous-led health care partnerships and cultural healing practices have shown improved health outcomes and access to care, and have become important features of the medical landscape ...
Health Affairs

Toward Intercultural Health Care in Ecuador: A Roadmap For Equitable Reform

On October 3, 2019, the streets of Quito, Ecuador’s Andean capital city, filled with thousands of protestors. Students, teachers, indigenous group leaders, transportation workers, labor unions, and ...