Native Nations Center, OU Norman Campus

Tribal and university collaborations: from principles to praxis and sustainability.

Join Center for Faculty Excellence in collaboration with Tana Fitzpatrick, OU Associate Vice President of Tribal Relations for a workshop focusing on tribal/university collaboration. Drs. Hiratsuka, Blanchard and Cox will share case studies on how they apply key principles of ethical engagement in their work. Attendees will have a chance to brainstorm practical steps to create mutually beneficial research partnerships. We recommend attending Tribal Engagement 101 in September or self-enroll in the OU canvas course, Ethical Tribal Engagement, to see previous presentations. This event is open to all but is limited to 30 participants.

Vanessa Hiratsuka PhD, MPH is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation and is also Wintu, is a community-based Senior Researcher at Southcentral Foundation, a tribal health organization headquartered in Anchorage, Alaska. She partners with Alaska Native communities to develop culturally grounded, community-driven solutions that improve health and reduce disparities across the Alaska Tribal Health System.

Evelyn Castro Cox, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, United States. She is an Indigenous CHamoru scholar and researcher. Her work promotes representation and access for Indigenous and underrepresented communities while creating culturally sensitive systems for ethical collaboration within institutional organizations.

Jessica Blanchard is currently a Senior Research Scientist at the University of Oklahoma’s Center for Applied Social Research where her work builds upon two decades of research focused on the improvement of health outcomes and research capacity building in institutionally underrepresented populations. Blanchard is trained as a cultural and medical anthropologist with expertise in community-engaged scholarship, with experience in ethnographic methods, research design, qualitative data analysis, community-based participatory research, interdisciplinary team science, and ELSI.

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