Over the past several years, the National Indian Health Board (NIHB) has worked with Swinomish Indian Tribal Community (Swinomish) as part of the Climate Ready Tribes (CRT) project funded through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). For the project, Swinomish
indigenized the
CDC Building Resilience Against Climate Effects (BRACE) health assessment framework to better reflect indigenous health definitions and priorities.
Now, NIHB is delighted to announce that Swinomish has developed a series of online, freely accessible modules that describe why and how Swinomish modified BRACE (module 1), and provide an example of how Swinomish used the indigenized BRACE framework in a climate change and health assessment project (module 2). Swinomish hopes that other Tribes may tailor the process and methods for use in their own communities.
The work was completed in collaboration with the Oregon State University College of Public Health and Human Sciences and Oregon State University's Open Educational Resources Unit. Open educational resources are open textbooks and reusable digital materials that exist in the public domain and are offered freely for students, teachers, and researchers to share, use, and reuse as a means of increasing the world's access to knowledge.
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