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The Alaska Food Festival & Conference

The Alaska Food Festival & Conference is less than a month away – November 3rd and 4th at Pikes Waterfront Lodge in Fairbanks, Alaska! Keynote speakers will be Mary Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Edible Alaska, and Mitzi Baum, Managing Director of Food Safety and member of the Feeding American team. October 19 is the deadline to […]

Great Plains Smokeout Challenge!

Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board is joining the American Cancer Society in the year’s Great American Smokeout on November 16, 2017. This Challenge is open to all the Tribes of the Great Plains (SD, ND, NE, IA). Please contact Terra Houska for more information and your free quit kit! Prizes for those who stay […]

Great Plains Good Health and Wellness Program Coordinator Receives Award From National Indian Health Board

(Rapid City, SD) The program coordinator for the Great Plains Good Health and Wellness Program (GPGHW), Eugene Giago was awarded the Area/Regional Impact Award from the National Indian Health Board (NIHB). NIHB represents Tribal governments—both those that operate their own health care delivery systems through contracting and compacting, and those receiving health care directly from […]

Notification of Job Opening

NOTIFICATION OF JOB OPENING Open/Closed Competitive Job Title: Comprehensive Cancer Coordinator (full-time perm) Department: Health Ed & Chronic Disease Location: ITC Central Office, Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783 The Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan, Inc. (ITC) is a state chartered 501 C3 non-profit organization consisting of twelve federally recognized Indian Tribes in Michigan. We offer a […]

Standing on the Shoulders of our Ancestors: Surviving and Thriving Beyond Cancer

By: Linda Burhansstipanov, MSPH, DrPH (Cherokee Nation), Founder, Native American Cancer Research Corp (NACR) and President, Native American Cancer Initiatives, Inc. (NACI) Flashback: During NACR’s 2001 American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) Survivorship Conference, the AI/AN survivors shared their personal cancer stories. Tina Aguilar (Wasco/Warm Springs) spontaneously wrote a poem as she was listening to participants share […]

Indigenous Pink Day 2017

Indigenous Pink Day is a national breast cancer awareness campaign for American Indians/Alaska Natives. Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death and the most common cancer found in American Indian/Alaska Native women. The goal of Indigenous Pink Day is to educate all indigenous people of the importance of early detection and […]

GW Cancer Center Releases Updated Lung Cancer Awareness Month Social Media Toolkit

November is lung cancer awareness month, an opportunity to raise awareness about the disease; combat stigma around a lung cancer diagnosis; and support patients, survivors and caregivers affected by lung cancer. Are you looking for ways to promote lung cancer awareness but don’t know where to start? The GW Cancer Center is pleased to announce […]

Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board Receives Funding for Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening

Visit Great Plains Tribal Chairmans Health Board Here (Rapid City, SD) The Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board received a cooperative agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide breast and cervical cancer screening, diagnostic, and treatment referral services within the 17 tribes and one service unit in a four state […]

Funding Opportunity – “The Health of Sexual and Gender Minority Populations”

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is committed to supporting research that will increase scientific understanding of the health status of diverse population groups thus improving the effectiveness of health interventions and services for individuals within those groups. This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) focuses on sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, […]

In Case You Slip Up

ORIGINAL ARTICLE FROM IQuitMonday.org HERE You’ve embarked on a brave journey to quit smoking. Maybe you’ve made it through the first few days without a cigarette, riding out cravings and filling your new free time in healthier ways. But then something happened – a rough day at work, an argument with family or a long commute through […]

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