{"id":15863,"date":"2017-09-28T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T09:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/pnr\/?p=15863"},"modified":"2026-02-03T17:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:24:09","slug":"urban-indian-health-institute-decolonizing-data","status":"archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/urban-indian-health-institute-decolonizing-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Indian Health Institute: Decolonizing Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uihi.org\/\">Urban Indian Health Institute<\/a> (UIHI), a Division of the Seattle Indian Health Board located in Seattle, WA is one of 12 tribal epidemiology centers (TECs) funded by the Indian Health Service (IHS). TECs serve as a crucial component of the health care resources for all American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI\/AN) by:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15864 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/pnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/09\/UIHI-300x86.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"86\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/09\/UIHI-300x86.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/09\/UIHI.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Managing public health information systems<br \/>\nInvestigating diseases of concern<br \/>\nManaging disease prevention and control programs<br \/>\nCommunicating vital health information and resources<br \/>\nResponding to public health emergencies<br \/>\nCoordinating these activities with other public health authorities<\/p>\n<p>Although eleven of the TECs focus on regional AI\/AN population health issues in IHS service areas, the UIHI addresses nationwide tribal AI\/AN and urban Indian public health and disease surveillance needs. On their website, you will find the data-rich UIHI annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uihi.org\/topics\/health-data\/\">Community Health Profile<\/a>, an overview of the health status of American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI\/AN) within the 33 Urban Indian Health Programs (UIHPs) service areas. They also offer an excellent series of fact sheets, reports, and toolkits on chronic disease, communicable disease, and child and maternal health.<\/p>\n<p>With her team of researchers, UIHI Director, Abigail Echo-Hawk, is passionate about decolonizing AI\/AN data. For centuries, tribal information has been collected and interpreted by outside officials, government agencies, and researchers.\u00a0 This has not only led to inaccurate and often harmful outcomes, but is also reflected in the wide gaps in accurate and reliable data available about AI\/AN populations and their health trends. One of the overarching goals of the UIHI is to right this wrong and place health data back in the hands of the tribal and urban Indian population, where it can be used to help identify and ameliorate the health disparities that currently exist.<\/p>\n<p>The NNLM PNR is proud to work with the UIHI and we look forward to bringing you more information on the amazing work they are doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Urban Indian Health Institute (UIHI), a Division of the Seattle Indian Health Board located in Seattle, WA is one of 12 tribal epidemiology centers (TECs) funded by the Indian Health Service (IHS). TECs serve as a crucial component of the health care resources for all American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI\/AN) by: Managing public&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/urban-indian-health-institute-decolonizing-data\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[54],"tags":[59,49],"class_list":["post-15863","post","type-post","status-archive","format-standard","hentry","category-data-science","tag-aian","tag-data"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15863"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15867,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15863\/revisions\/15867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}