FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – A Cherokee Nation student from Arizona has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine based successful portion connected her probe addressing HIV/AIDS and substance maltreatment prevention with an accent connected Indigenous youth.
Julie Baldwin, Ph.D., a regents’ prof successful the Department of Health Sciences astatine Northern Arizona University, joins much than 2,000 different elected members who enactment extracurricular of authorities to “provide nonsubjective advice” connected matters related to science, exertion and health, according to the academy.
“It’s an unthinkable honor,” the CN national and prof from Flagstaff, Arizona, said. “It was humbling to beryllium nominated.”
The National Academy of Medicine is 1 of 3 advisory institutions that marque up the nonprofit National Academies. This year’s 100 caller recruits, including Baldwin, “demonstrated outstanding nonrecreational accomplishment and committedness to service,” the academy noted.
“This bonzer people of caller members is comprised of exceptional scholars and leaders who person been astatine the forefront of responding to superior nationalist wellness challenges, combatting societal inequities and achieving innovative discoveries,” National Academy of Medicine President Victor J. Dzau said successful a statement. “Their expertise volition beryllium captious to informing the aboriginal of wellness and medicine for the payment of america all.”
The academy welcomed Baldwin based successful portion connected her “internationally recognized, pioneering research” into community-driven HIV/AIDS and substance-use prevention interventions for Indigenous youth. Baldwin, who has spent much than 3 decades successful wellness research, said she believes she is the archetypal pistillate Native American student to service with the National Academy of Medicine, arsenic good arsenic the archetypal from Northern Arizona University.
“I’m hoping that I tin assistance pave the mode for different women, Indigenous peoples and different radical of colour to go members of these academies,” Baldwin said.
Baldwin, 60, earned a doctorate successful behavioral sciences and wellness acquisition from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health successful 1991. She worked for Northern Arizona University from 1994-2004 and past returned successful 2015. Between her stints astatine NAU, Baldwin worked astatine the University of South Florida successful Tampa.
In summation to her teaching role, she is the founding manager of Northern Arizona University’s Center for Health Equity Research, which received a $21.4 million, five-year assistance successful 2017 from the National Institutes of Health to beforehand wellness equity and survey wellness disparities among divers populations of the American Southwest. In September, the assistance was renewed for different $21 million.
“NAU, wherever I am, is considered a Hispanic-serving institution, but we besides person a absorption connected Native American wellness and communities,” Baldwin said, adding that assistance backing is utilized to assistance code wellness disparities successful that region.
At the probe center, Baldwin is besides immersed successful a collaborative task titled “Ending the HIV epidemic successful agrarian Oklahoma,” oregon e-Hero, with colleagues from Purdue University, Oklahoma State University and Cherokee Nation Health Services.
“It’s a survey to effort to destruct HIV and different (sexually transmitted infections),” she said. “This peculiar task is focused connected Native men and different men, and it truly is to promote testing. It’s conscionable a one-year program, but our extremity is to grow that.”
She added that she has an involvement successful helping with different projects that impact Native Americans, particularly youth.
“A batch of my enactment has been successful the country of substance-abuse prevention and treatment,” Baldwin said. “I would emotion to enactment much with behavioral wellness of Cherokee Nation and different groups there.”
Baldwin’s mother, Cherokee Nation national Jeanne Harding, lives successful Tahlequah.
“My begetter was really besides a assemblage professor,” Baldwin said. “He had a Ph.D. successful physics, and past my ma got her grade successful simple education. So, my household was ever precise focused connected education.”
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