Dr. Rod Handy, Chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety Sciences in the College of Public Health, will participate in a multi-institutional study of how information about environmental exposures are shared with rural tribal populations.
This four-year NIH-funded project is titled "Evaluation of Report-Back Strategies for Long-term and Short-term Exposure Information in Rural Tribal Populations". In addition to East Tennessee State University, the project involves the University of Utah, University of New Mexico, Northern Arizona University, as well as the Northern Arapaho and Utah Navaho tribes.
This team will develop and evaluate effective and culturally-sensitive strategies to share environmental exposure data with rural tribal populations.
Dr. Handy has worked with a variety of tribal populations in Utah, New Mexico, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nevada.