Indian Health Board’s Urban Indian Health Institute.

• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: Indian; Metlakatla; Ketchikan; Tsimshian; Tsimshian*; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.373.1293; http://www.uihi.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/2004healthstatusreport.pdf

The Urban Indian Health Institute (UIHI) is a division within the Seattle Indian Health Board (SIHB), a community health center targeting urban American Indians and Alaska Natives. The UIHI provides centralized nationwide management of health surveillance, research, and policy considerations regarding the health status deficiencies affecting urban American Indians and Alaska Natives. Cover artwork by Joyce Troyer-Willson who is a member of the Tsimshian Tribe from Ketchikan, Alaska. She belongs to the Gishbuwidwada (Blackfish) Clan. Ms. Troyer-Willson served as a member of the SIHB Board of Directors for 10 years and served as Board President from 1985 to 1990. Her portfolio includes a totem pole raised in her ancestral village of Metlakatla, Alaska. To learn more about the Urban Indian Health Institute and to obtain copies of this report, please go to the website, www.uihi.org.