NCUIH Native Healthcast

Join Lyz Best, MA, MPH, Manager of Technical Assistance at the National Council of Urban Indian Health (NCUIH), in conversation with Lynn Argento of Agatha Consulting as they explore what it means to center process in healthcare leadership. In high-pressure healthcare environments, leaders often navigate staffing shortages, funding constraints, policy changes, and growing community needs, leading...

In this episode of A Look at Urban Indian Health in Oklahoma City with Robyn Sunday-Allen , host River Carroll, M.L.S. (Cheyenne and Arapaho), Policy and Events Communications Associate at the National Council of Urban Indian Health, talks with Robyn Sunday-Allen, RN, MPH (Cherokee Nation), Chief Executive Officer of the Oklahoma City Indian Clinic and incoming NCUIH Board President. Robyn reflect...

In this episode, we share highlights from the National Council of Urban Indian Health’s recent virtual briefing for Congressional staff on the rising rates of opioid use and Substance Use Disorder in American Indian and Alaska Native communities. Jeremy Grabiner, Associate Director of Policy at the National Council of Urban Indian Health, interviews Kerry Hawk Lessard, Executive Director of Native...

In this episode of A Look at Urban Indian Health in Tulsa with Carmelita Skeeter , host Meredith Raimondi, Vice President of Policy and Communications at the National Council of Urban Indian Health, sits down with Carmelita Skeeter (Citizen Potawatomi Nation), Chief Executive Officer of the Indian Health Care Resource Center of Tulsa. Carmelita shares her remarkable journey as a trailblazing leade...

In this episode, hosts Alyssa Smith-Longee, MPH, BSN, RN, CPN (Assiniboine/Sioux – Fort Peck), Public Health Program Manager at the National Council of Urban Indian Health (NCUIH), and Dr. Kimberly Fowler, PhD, Vice President of the Technical Assistance and Research Center at NCUIH, discuss the ongoing efforts to address COVID-19 in Urban Indian communities. Drawing on survey data, polling respons...

This episode, Traditional Food Program Successes at Urban Indian Organizations, provides a deep dive into traditional food programming at Urban Indian Organizations (UIOs), expanding on themes from the previous episode. Drawing from NCUIH’s 2024 report and interviews with various health care providers and leaders, hosts Nahla Holland (Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation), research associate at NCUIH, and...

In this episode, hosts Nahla Holland (Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation), research associate at NCUIH, and Alex Sampson (Lumbee), federal relations associate at NCUIH, discuss traditional foods for American Indian and Alaskan Native (AI/AN) people, including the way food is considered, the policies supporting access to traditional foods, and foods integral to Indigenous people. Nahla kicks off the conv...

In this episode, host Jessica Gilbertson, director of communications and events at the National Council of Urban Indian Health (NCUIH), interviews NCUIH CEO Francys Crevier about the need for sustainable funding for behavioral health programming in Indian Country and NCUIH’s new “Investing in Wellness” toolkit. The conversation covers the state of behavioral health care in American Indian and Alas...

This episode looks at why youth engagement is essential. Guest speakers with extensive experience in mental health advocacy and youth engagement join Liz Best, manager of technical assistance at NCUIH. Colby Coughlin is a project director for the Tribal Opioid Response Project and Thrive, a suicide prevention initiative at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board. Shane Lopez-Johnson is the...

Tune in to the NCUIH Native HealthCast for a conversation on the importance of marketing for Urban Indian Organizations (UIOs). Jessica Gilbertson, Director of Communications and Events, and Carmen Toft, Associate Director of Communications and Events, discuss the importance of promoting UIOs in a competitive health care landscape to ensure communities and patients are aware of the valuable servic...

This episode of the NCUIH Native Healthcast delves into the crucial topic of civic engagement and social determinants of health (SDOH). The discussion between hosts Meredith Raimondi, Vice President of Policy & Communications, and Jeremy Grabiner, Interim Congressional Relations Director, highlights how non-medical factors can significantly influence health outcomes in urban Indigenous communi...

In this episode of the NCUIH Native Healthcast, Alexandra Payan, JD, federal relations manager, and Nahla Holland (Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation), research associate, explore how traditional healing practices can intertwine with Western health care systems, spotlighting the tangible positive impact of traditional healing on health outcomes at Urban Indian Organizations (UIOs). Throughout the discus...

Tune in to the episode of the NCUIH Native Healthcast , where we delve into topics that impact urban Indigenous communities. In this episode, NCUIH hosts River Carroll (Cheyenne and Arapaho), Policy and Communications Associate, Tiffani Stark, MHA, Public Health Manager, and Myca Grant Hunthrop, MPH, Public Health Project Coordinator, discuss the public health campaign, “Be a Good Relative” which...

Join Meredith Raimondi, Vice President of Policy & Communications, and Chandos Culleen, JD, Senior Director of Federal Relations, Public Policy, in this episode as they delve into the crucial topic of stable funding for the Indian Health Service (IHS) and the need for advance appropriations. Learn why stable funding for IHS, including for Urban Indian Organizations, is vital to delivering esse...

Join hosts Rori Collins, JD, Esq. (Nenana Native Village (Tanana Athabascan)), Public Policy Counsel at the National Council of Urban Indian Health (NCUIH) and Chandos Culleen, JD, Senior Director of Federal Relations at NCUIH in an engaging discussion on the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) and its intersection with urban Native communities. ICWA is a federal procedural law that establishes minimu...

In this episode of the NCUIH Native Healthcast, we will highlight the voices of frontline healthcare workers who are employed by UIOs. This episode intends to create a space for UIO staff members to share their experiences related to implementing IPC practices, share policies which have proven successful in protecting patients and frontline staff, and share what challenges exist in providing high-...

Welcome to the National Council of Urban Indian Health’s podcast on infection prevention and control education topics for our frontline warriors, our healthcare team members, serving American Indians and Urban Indian Health Organizations.  In this episode we will be highlighting young, Native voices in health. Our goal in this podcast is to have a conversation to seek and highlight the voices of o...

NCUIH Native Healthcast presents “ Where We’ve Been & Where We’re Going ” hosted by Vickie Oldman, with special guests Dr. Donald Warne and Zoë Harris.  In this exciting episode, Dr. Warne, a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Tribe, describes the historical contexts that affect Indigenous public health programming and shares his vision for a robust and inclusive health system that can meet the uniq...

In this episode, we discuss methods on informing and educating healthcare workers on germ spread using the Body and the Healthcare Environment Reservoirs. Our first guest is Shay Drummond (MPH RN CIC), who works as an Infection Preventionist with the CDC Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion and is a subject matter expert on this topic. Our second guest is Evelina Y. Maho (MAdm., Diné), who is...

Today's episode features subject matter experts Karen Kwok (MSN, FNP-BC, MPH) and Marie Zephier, MPH as they lead the discussion on infection prevention control tips for healthcare staff.   Karen holds a Dual Master’s degree in Nursing and Public Health and is a nationally certified Family Nurse Practitioner. She has over 20 years of experience working in health equity, including coordinating...

Welcome to Episode 2 of the NCUIH Native Healthcast! This is the National Council of Urban Indian Health's (NCUIH) podcast platform which is promoting infection prevention and control education topics for our frontline warriors and healthcare team members through collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via Project FIRSTLINE . Our guests for this episode include Kyle...

Welcome to the National Council of Urban Indian Health's (NCUIH) first podcast! Our first episode focuses on Infection Prevention and Control education topics for our frontline warriors and healthcare team members serving American Indians/Alaska Natives in Urban Indian Health Organizations.  Our host is Vickie Oldman ​, a Podcast Developer and an enrolled member of the Navajo tribe, and her c...