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Native America Calling: Assessing current health threats to Indian Country
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Assessing current health threats
The current flu season is the worst in 15 years in terms of doctor’s visits.
Tuberculosis cases are rising. On the horizon is a possible bird flu outbreak that is already affecting millions of livestock birds and it’s starting to make the jump to humans.
This is all happening with the backdrop of lapsed information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, confirmation of a federal health secretary who openly expressed skepticism about vaccines, and unprecedented cuts in the works for the Indian Health Service.
Join Native America Calling get a gauge of the current threats to the health of Native Americans.
Guests on Native America Calling
Dean Seneca (Seneca), CEO and founder of Seneca Scientific Solutions+, a company based in New York
Katherine Minthorn (Umatilla), an owner of Rez Chicks Co-Op, a Native-owned and women-owned business in Oregon
Aino Dr. Alec Ekeroma (Samoan), director general of health of Samoa’s Health Ministry
Chanda Hesson, nurse consultant for the State of Alaska’s section of epidemiology and the lead nurse consultant for the Alaska Department of Health’s tuberculosis team
Dr. Robert Belknap, executive director of the Public Health Institute at Denver Health in Colorado
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