Indigenous Child Health: Challenges, Perspectives and Solutions

Chair(s)

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  Gary Darmstadt, MD, MS (he/him/his)

  Associate Dean for Maternal and Child Health, Professor
  Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine
  Palo Alto, California, United States

The panelists will discuss challenges in Indigenous child health , including in Hawaii and in the Pacific region, and highlight indigenous knowledge and perspectives, resilience, and strength in indigenous solutions and programs. Components will include Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander historical injustices and health disparities; Indigenous Planetary Health; policies and colonizing practices and the effects on Indigenous communities, families and mental, behavioral, social and emotional child development; and principles of effective solutions in Indigenous child health.

Presentations:

• 4:00pm – 4:30pm HST

  Indigenous-led solutions to child health and intergenerational trauma
  

  Speaker: Don Warne, MD, MPH (he/him/his) – JHU BSPH Center for Indigenous Health
• 4:30pm – 5:00pm HST

  Indigenous Planetary Health: An Intergenerational Vision
  

  Speaker: Nicole Redvers, ND, MPH, DPhilc (she/her/hers) – The University of Western Ontario - Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
• 5:00pm – 5:15pm HST

  The future is in the past: Promoting optimal youth well-being through Indigenous Hawaiian cultural values and practices
  

  Speaker: May Okihiro, MD (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaii, John A. Burns School of Medicine
• 5:15pm – 5:30pm HST

  The future is in the past: Promoting optimal youth well-being through Indigenous Hawaiian cultural values and practices
  

  Speaker: Chandel Kamalani Pule Cruz, Bachelor of Science in Pscychology, Master of Educational Leadership (she/her/hers) – Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center