  {"id":166852,"date":"2022-10-10T12:52:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T22:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=166852"},"modified":"2022-10-10T12:52:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T22:52:39","slug":"indigenous-innovation-health-equity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/10\/10\/indigenous-innovation-health-equity\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous innovation, health equity initiative marks first-year milestones"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_148561\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148561\" style=\"width: 673px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/mao-farms-study.jpg\" alt=\"student interns selling produce\" width=\"673\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-148561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/mao-farms-study.jpg 673w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/mao-farms-study-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/mao-farms-study-130x74.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-148561\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span aria-label=\"MAO\">MA&#699;O<\/span> Organic Farms <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> interns Liona Elwin, Elerina Henry and Emilin David, participants in Alika Maunakea&#8217;s Maoli Ola Study.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When you bring smart, innovative people together you can see success happen in areas you did not expect. The minds leading the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Office of Indigenous Innovation and <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Office of Strategic Health Initiatives are powering such advancements.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Office of Indigenous Innovation Director <strong>Kamuela Enos<\/strong> presented to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/offices\/bor\/\"><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Board of Regents<\/a> Committee on Research and Innovation on October 6, about the successes and goals of a newly launched health and innovation program.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/uhealthy.hawaii.edu\/uh-center-indigenous-health-equity\/\">Center for Indigenous Innovation and Health Equity<\/a> (<abbr>CIIHE<\/abbr>) is a new federal initiative launched by a $1 million grant in fiscal year 2021 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 Office of Minority Health. The center was created through a vision between Enos and <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Office of Strategic Health Initiatives Director <strong>Aimee Grace<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Enos shared the successes of the center\u2019s first year, which included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Establishing an Indigenous framework through workshops and formal agreements<\/li>\n<li>Issuing a landscape analysis survey and workshops to understand what types of Indigenous innovations in health are occurring<\/li>\n<li>Onboarding four staff members<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enos also described the goals the center has for year two:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ongoing landscape analysis and literature review<\/li>\n<li>&ldquo;Deep dives&rdquo; with core community partners including <span aria-label=\"Hooulu\">Ho&#699;oulu<\/span> <span aria-label=\"Aina\">&#699;\u0100ina<\/span> and <span aria-label=\"MAO\">MA&#699;O<\/span> Organic Farms<\/li>\n<li>Integrating students into the Mauli Ola internship program<\/li>\n<li>Establishing a research incubator to invest in pilot projects<\/li>\n<li>Advancing policy levers at the federal, state and local levels<\/li>\n<li>Exploring economic development initiatives<\/li>\n<li>Creating a national conference with <abbr>CIIHE<\/abbr>\u2019s Native American\/Alaska Native partners<\/li>\n<li>Exploring to create a satellite campus at the University of Guam<\/li>\n<li>Hiring a director and fiscal support<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enos told the <abbr>BOR<\/abbr> Committee on Research and Innovation that the center will know if the initiative is working if &ldquo;at the community level, investment is being driven into community organizations; at the university level, research is co-designed with community and supports ancestral practices done in contemporary application; and at the government level, Indigenous communities are repositioned as spaces of innovation and their practices and people are thriving.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;By <em>Marc Arakaki<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kamuela Enos gave an update on the Center for Indigenous Innovation and Health Equity to the Board of Regents on October 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[72,165,1505,31,947],"class_list":["post-166852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-board-of-regents","tag-health","tag-innovation","tag-john-a-burns-school-of-medicine","tag-uh-system","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166852"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166856,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166852\/revisions\/166856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}