Experts discuss health care for Native Americans
TCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine assistant professor Lori Atkins, M.D., and Scott Langston, Ph.D., a full-time faculty member in the Religion department at Texas Christian University who also serves as TCU's Native American Nations and Communities Liaison, were guests on FWMD LIVE on November 5, 2020 discussing Native American Heritage Month and health care for Native Americans.
FORT WORTH – TCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine assistant professor Lori Atkins, M.D., and Scott Langston, Ph.D., a full-time faculty member in the Religion department at Texas Christian University who also serves as TCU’s Native American Nations and Communities Liaison, were guests on FWMD LIVE on November 5 discussing Native American Heritage Month and health care for Native Americans.
During the discussion they both shared information about how COVID-19 has disproportionately affected Native Americans as well as some of the challenges faced by health care providers providing treatments for Native Americans.
Watch the full discussion below.
Here is a list of resources where you can learn more about Native Americans:
- Urban Inter-Tribal Center of Texas https://uitct.org/(located in Dallas)
- Urban Indian Health Institute https://www.uihi.org/
- National Council of Urban Indian Health https://www.ncuih.org/index
- National Indian Health Board https://www.nihb.org/index.php
- First Nations Health Authority https://www.fnha.ca/
- Cherokee Nation Health Services https://health.cherokee.org/(as an example of tribal health services)
- White Bison https://whitebison.org/
- National Museum of the American Indian https://americanindian.si.edu/(for general information; for specific tribes/nations, see their individual websites; for instance, for the Comanche Nation https://comanchenation.com/)
- Indian Health Service https://www.ihs.gov/