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The
Association of
American Indian Physicians - http://www.aaip.org
The
Association of American Indian Physicians (AAIP) was founded in 1971 as
an educational, scientific, and charitable non-profit corporation. A
group of fourteen American Indian and Alaskan Native physicians sought
to establish an organization that would provide both support and
services to the American Indian and Alaskan Native communities. At the
time of its founding AAIP’s primary goal was, and remains to improve
the health of American Indian and Alaskan Natives. Its mission today is
“to pursue excellence in Native American healthcare by promoting
education in the medical disciplines, honoring traditional healing
principles and restoring the balance of mind, body, and spirit”.
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The Indian
Health Service - http://www.IHS.org
The
Indian Health Service (IHS), an agency within the Department of Health
and Human Services, is responsible for providing federal health
services to American Indians and Alaska Natives. The IHS is the
principal federal health care provider and health advocate for Indian
people, and its goal is to raise their health status to the highest
possible level. The IHS currently provides health services to
approximately 1.5 million American Indians and Alaska Natives who
belong to more than 557 federally recognized tribes in 35 states.
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The
American Indians in
Science and Engineering Society - http://aises.org
The
AISES mission is to increase substantially the representation of
American Indian and Alaskan Natives in engineering, science and other
related technology disciplines.
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The Society for Advancement of Chicanos and
Native Americans - http://www.sacnas.org
The
mission of SACNAS (Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native
Americans in Science) is to encourage Chicano/Latino and Native
American students to pursue graduate education and obtain the advanced
degrees necessary for science research, leadership, and teaching
careers at all levels. For
over 30 years, SACNAS has provided strong national leadership in
improving and expanding opportunities for minorities in the scientific
workforce and academia; mentoring college students within science,
mathematics and engineering; as well as, supporting quality pre-college
science education.
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The
Urban Indian Health Institute - http://www.uihi.org/
The Urban
Indian Health Institute provides centralized nationwide management of
health surveillance, research, and policy considerations regarding the
health status deficiencies affecting urban American Indians and Alaska
Natives. Since 1996, nationwide tribal epidemiology centers have built
public health capacity in American Indian/Alaskan Native communities
through core funding from the Indian Health Service. One of eleven
tribal epidemiology centers, the UIHI focuses on the nationwide urban
American Indian/Alaskan native population while the other ten serve
tribes regionally.
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