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PRESS RELEASE<\/p>\n
August 3, 2020<\/p>\n
Din\u00e9 College Students Present COVID-19 Summer Research Findings<\/b><\/p>\n
TSAILE, ARIZ.<\/b> \u2014 Rapidly transitioning from an in-person program to one entirely online was a challenge, but public health students with Din\u00e9 College\u2019s Summer Research Enhancement Program (SREP) delivered outstanding presentations, the professor who oversees SREP said.<\/p>\n
The presentations were part of a public health course requirement and carried coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) themes. Specifically, the student presentations covered the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of caregivers on the Navajo Nation, the impact of COVID-19 policies on mental health within the Navajo Nation and the impact of COVID-19 on Din\u00e9 College employees.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAll of the staff felt that the students did an outstanding job presenting their work in a professional way in the online format,\u201d Mark Bauer, Ph.D., the Din\u00e9 College science professor who is in charge of the annual program, said. \u201cThis historic pandemic has changed the student\u2019s lives in so many ways,\u201d Bauer said. \u201cIt has affected the way they are attending school and how they interact with their families and relatives.\u201d<\/p>\n Bauer said six of the eight student presenters were Din\u00e9 College undergraduate public health majors. Of the other students, Bauer said one was from Pima Community College in Tucson, Ariz., and the other from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colo. The latter two are undergraduate public health majors, he said.<\/p>\n Vanessa Begaye is a senior at Din\u00e9 College and from Lukachukai, Ariz. She gave a presentation on the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of Navajo caregivers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIn my research there was no significant difference between essential and non-essential caregivers,\u201d Begaye said. Begaye said she wants to study public health in graduate school. \u201cBoth worry about bringing the virus home to their families. Since my study was conducted on social media, I believe if there was a larger sample size our data would have been significantly different.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Bauer said the goal in highlighting COVID-19 this year was for the students to study and understand how the disease impacts their communities on the Navajo Nation \u2014 which has a continuously high rate of COVID-19. He said highlighting the virus was a way for the students to gain public health tools and skills so they can understand COVID-19, and not be overcome by the obstacles presented by the pandemic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Bauer said the 2020 SREP was smaller than the usual 12-15 students, saying the decrease was primarily due to social distancing restrictions and the uncertainty about the program taking place.<\/p>\n SREP engages students in three weeks of classroom instruction, then coordinates internships with different agencies and mentors around the Navajo Nation. The internships give students practical experience in data collection and analysis in a health-related program in a community setting. In the final week, students return to the Tsaile campus and give presentations to departmental faculty, internship mentors and peers.<\/p>\n Besides Vanessa Begay, the other students who participated in the 2020 SREP were: Kyann Dedman-Cisco, Amber Kee, Faye Sorrell, Wacey Begay, Karianne Jones, Krishanya Smith and Shelby Kinlichee.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n .\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rapidly transitioning from an in-person program to one entirely online was a challenge, but public health students with Din\u00e9 College\u2019s Summer Research Enhancement Program completed their work, focusing on the impacts of COVID-19 in their community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[8,116],"class_list":["post-7637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-institutions","category-tribes","tag-navajo","tag-tribal-colleges"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7639,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637\/revisions\/7639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}