Latest News
January 2022
- 01/04/22 Emergency Physicians, Not just social workers, can help patients find housing
- 01/04/22 Foundation awards more than $10 million to drive digital equity and to support relief and recovery for vulnerable communities
- 01/07/22 Global wishes for 2022: a gift box for everyone, greater girl power, vertical gardens
- 10/28/21 HIV activists have a history of outrageous energy. COVID protesters hope to match it
- 06/08/21 COVID-19 and global mental health
- 06/25/21 Vaccine Equity as Global Good
- 03/02/21 Cal Alumni Association: In the Navajo Nation, Fighting COVID and Years of Neglect
- 03/07/21 International Womens Day
- 03/07/21 KPFA Radio: Then and Now: Exploring Pandemic Healthcare in Vulnerable Communities
- 03/16/21 “We need to claim our seat at the table.” – Last Mile Health’s Savior Flomo Mendin on International Women’s Day webinar hosted by the World Health Organization
- 03/24/21 Teaching Hospital-Based Rural Physician Fellowships Advance Health Equity
- 03/31/21 Adapting Problem Management Plus for Implementation: Lessons Learned from Public Sector Settings Across Rwanda, Peru, Mexico and Malawi
- 02/17/21 CASE Photography Award
- 6/20/20 KTAR News: Navajo Nation college offering first-of-its-kind medical assistant program
- 6/18/20 The Guardian: Navajo Nation reinstates lockdown as Covid-19 cases surge near reservation
- 6/16/20 ABQ Journal: Navajo Nation brings back curfew as AZ virus cases rise
- 6/9/20 US News: COVID-19 Ravages the Navajo Nation, But Its People Fight Back
- 5/30/20 KQED: California Sends Dozens of Healthcare Workers to Navajo Nation to Assist in Pandemic
- 5/30/20 KQED: CA Economic Recovery, Navajo Nation and COVID-19, Future of Cities
- 5/27/20 Harvard Political Review: Interview with Dr. Sriram Shamasunder Part I: COVID-19 and Health Inequities Laid Bare
- 5/25/20 Nunatsiaq News: The cold and hot spots of COVID-19 in North America
- 5/21/20 KCBS Radio: UCSF Sends Second Wave of Nurses to Aid Navajo Nation
- 5/20/20 ABC7: UCSF team of volunteers help Navajo Nation hit hard by COVID-19
- 5/20/20 GMA: Navajo Nation surpasses New York in highest per capita of COVID cases
- 5/20/20 Think Global Health: Coronavirus in the Navajo Nation—From Charity to Solidarity
- 5/19/20 CNN: Navajo Nation President: We’re being pushed aside
- 5/14/20 The Guardian: The way we get through this is together’: the rise of mutual aid under coronavirus
- 5/14/20 KQED: What’s Next for California’s Budget? – One Doctor’s Experience Helping Members of the Navajo Nation
- 5/13/20 The Appeal: Coronavirus Cases Soar for the Navajo Nation as Federal Funding Shortfalls Strain Efforts to Respond
- 5/13/20 NBC Bay Area: UCSF Team in Navajo Nation
- 5/13/20 The Appeal: Coronavirus Cases Soar for the Navajo Nation as Federal Funding Shortfalls Strain Efforts to Respond
- 5/13/20 Navajo Post: Navajo Nation Gets Dog Food
- 5/12/20 Advisory: How rural hospitals overcome staffing shortages amid Covid-19
- 5/12/20 AZ Central: Doctors Without Borders, UC San Francisco send health care workers to Navajo Nation
- 5/12/20 KJZZ: Navajo Nation COVID-19 Patients Shelter In Gallup Motels
- 5/12/20 ABQ Journal: Surge still a problem for Gallup hospitals
- 5/12/20 SF Chronicle: ‘When is it going to stop?’: UCSF team combats coronavirus surge in Navajo Nation
- 5/8/20 Daily Good: Going Into the Hospital: COVID 19 (Poem)
- 5/5/20 Democracy Now: Navajo Nation Suffers Third-Highest COVID-19 Infection Rate in U.S. with Limited Healthcare & Water
- 5/5/20 WBRZ: Navajo Nation sees alarming rates of infection while battling COVID-19 with limited supplies
- 5/4/20 Fronteras: Volunteers Come From Near And Far To Help The Navajo Nation During COVID-19 Outbreak
- 5/4/20 ABC News: Navajo community left to fight COVID-19 with limited resources
- 5/2/20 NBC Bay Area: Update With UCSF Medical Worker Battling COVID-19 in Navajo Nation
- 5/1/20 ABC News: Navajo doctors struggle to obtain resources to treat community ravaged by COVID-19
- 4/29/20 CBS SF Bay Area: UCSF Sets Up COVID-19 Ward At Mount Zion Complex
- 4/27/20 KCBS Radio: UCSF Medical Team Travels To Navajo Nation For Month-Long Fight Against COVID-19
- 4/26/20 ABQ Journal: Calif. health care workers to help Navajo
- 4/25/20 Navajo Times: UCSF team lends hand on Navajo
- 4/24/20 Navajo Nation welcomes UCSF HEAL Initiative health care workers to the Navajo Nation
- 4/24/20 PBS: Navajo Nation, hit hard by COVID-19, comes together to protect its most vulnerable
- 4/23/20 NBC: Team of UCSF Medical Workers Heads to Navajo Nation to Help Population Overwhelmed by Virus
- 4/23/20 Arizona News: Health care workers from California coming to help Navajo Nation with coronavirus fight
- 4/22/20 UCSF: UCSF Health Care Workers to Serve in Navajo Nation
- 4/22/20 SF Chronicle: UCSF sends doctor and nurses to largest Native American reservation, hard-hit by coronavirus
- 4/21/20 The Week: The Navajo Nation outbreak reveals an ugly truth behind America’s coronavirus experience
- 4/21/20 KQED: UCSF to Assist Navajo Nation with Coronavirus Cases
- 4/20/20 NBC News: Coronavirus batters the Navajo Nation, and it’s about to get worse
- 4/17/20 CNN Breaking News: Navajo Nation has lost more to coronavirus than 13 states.
HEAL Fellows & Alum:
Voices from the Frontline
Understanding the
Context of Today
- The Voices of the Navajos by Jessica Top, HEAL Fellow (2018-2020)
- Coronavirus in the Navajo Nation – From Charity to Solidarity by Jack Fukushima, Abhi Kole, Sangeeta Tripathi, Cristina Rivera Carpenter, & Sriram Shamasunder
- Is Sorry Enough? by Samuel Percy and Carlie Field, HEAL Fellows (2019-2021)
- Poverty the Real Pandemic by Bikash Gauchan, HEAL Fellow (2017-2019)
- What the “Global North” needs to learn about COVID-19? by HEAL Fellows and Alumni
- Direct Care for COVID-19 Patients During the Early Stages of the US Pandemic by Abhi Kole, HEAL Fellow (2018-2020)
- In riot aftermath, it’s scorched health care too by Anup Agarwal, HEAL Fellow (2017-2019)
- NYT: These N.Y.C. Neighborhoods Have the Highest Rates of Virus Deaths
- Understanding Dine Hozho? Kahn-John Concept analysis of Diné Hózhó: A Diné wellness philosophy. (13 pgs)
- Rural Matters — Coronavirus and the Navajo Nation. Heather Kovich, M.D.
- The People vs. the Pandemic A 30-min special exploring health disparities on the Navajo Nation amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Books for understanding the context for today:
- Barr, R. Indigenous People’s History of the United States.
- Estes, N. Our history is the future.