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- Alumnus Spotlight at Univ of California - Berkeley
When Michael E. Bird, M.S.W., M.P.H. ’83 was inaugurated president of the American Public Health Association (APHA)—the oldest and largest organization of public health professionals in the world—it represented a milestone. Bird, who is a Santo Domingo-San Juan Pueblo Indian from New Mexico, was the first American Indian ever to lead the high-profile association. A member of APHA for more than 15 years, he chaired the organization’s executive board from 1998 to 1999, served as president-elect in 2000 and president in 2001.
- American Indian Graduate Center bio
President (KEWA and ohkay owingeh pueblos) Mr. Bird is a Kewa and Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo Indian from New Mexico. Mr. Bird has over 25 years of public health experience in the areas of medical social work, substance abuse prevention, health promotion and disease prevention, HIV/AIDS prevention, behavioral health, and health care administration.
- Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Utah College of Social Work
- Eliminating Health Disparities Conversations with American Indians and Alaska Natives
Conversations with American Indians and Alaska Natives Michael E. Bird Malcolm Bowekaty Linda Burhansstipanov Patricia Longley Cochran Pamela J. Everingham Michele Suina ETR Associates, Santa Cruz, California
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Sampada Nandyala, PHP Fellow, August 20, 2018
- Roots of American Indian-Alaska Native: Indigenous Health Disparities (80 min)
This presentation, from the 9th Annual Summer Public Health Research Institute and Videoconference on Minority Health at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, discusses the nature, extent and context of health disparities for American Indian and Alaska Native populations as well as Indigenous Populations through out the world. Michael Bird, a past president of the American Public Health Association, offers an alternative to the myth of personal responsibility as the most significant factor as to why some communities are healthy and others are not. Moderator: Ursula Tsosie.