Dec 28, 2021
This
week’s guest is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation and a
Board-Certified Family Medicine physician with more than 20 years’
experience in direct primary care, with the majority of her time
focused on underserved populations and Native American healthcare.
Her name is Dr. Julianna Reece and she first fell in love with
public health when she completed an MPH before even going to
medical school!
Dr.
Reece is the Director of the Healthy Tribes Program with the CDC
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
in the Division of Population Health. Her recent roles include
serving as the Chief Medical Officer for the Albuquerque Area
Indian Health Service (IHS), as well as the Vice Chair of the
Heroin, Opioids, and Pain Efforts (HOPE) Committee, a national
initiative through the IHS.
In
this episode of the Public Health Epidemiology Conversations (PHEC)
Podcast, Dr. Reece shares some insight into Tribal Epidemiology
Centers (TECs) and Tribal Epidemiology Centers Public Health
Infrastructure (TECPHI), the importance of tribal sovereignty, and
the key role that infrastructure plays in implementing effective
solutions, as well as how culture equates with wellness, plus so
much more!
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