A collaborative research team of individuals from the Department of Health Outcomes & Policy and Cherokee Nation Behavioral Health will present their recent research results on underage alcohol use at the Society for Prevention Research 23rd Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., on May 26-29. The research team, comprised of Kelli…
As part of a large-scale, NIH-funded prevention science study that aims to reduce underage alcohol use among American Indians and other adolescents in rural Oklahoma, an Institute for Child Health Policy and Cherokee Nation Behavioral Health team designed and executed a novel alcohol risk survey. “American Indians suffer from alcohol-related…
Brady Garrett, Ph.D, a counseling psychologist intern with Cherokee Nation Behavioral Health in Tahlequah, Okla., has received the first NIH-funded post-doctoral position with the Department of Health Outcomes and Policy and Institute for Child Health Policy. “I’m very excited, and extremely fortunate to have received this wonderful opportunity,”…
A Department of Health Outcomes and Policy research team, led by Kelli Komro, Ph.D., received a $100,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women’s Health to explore patterns, risk factors and consequences of alcohol use among female Native American teenagers. This grant complements the team’s…
