Indigenizing Public Health Philanthropy To Support Haliwa-Saponi Veterans
The presentation will cover ways to embed Indigenous cultural values and practices into grant development to support Indigenous communities and broader public health goals, highlighting work with the Haliwa-Saponi tribe in North Carolina.
Presenter:
Daniel Daugharty Wacker is a graduate of the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, with a BA in Health Services Management, while minoring in public health, and recently graduated with a Master's in Public Health focusing in Health Equity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He currently works as a graduate assistant for the Healthy Vets Community Project where he focuses on broader, dissemination-related work, as well as maintaining a specific partnership with the Haliwa-Saponi tribe. He has previously worked with a mental-health nonprofit supporting fund development and external relations, and for a large healthcare system providing customer data support. More recently he worked in program coordination and educational content for a legal nonprofit focused on public health law. His areas of interest include health literacy, indigenous health, legal epidemiology, and food insecurity issues.
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MPHA Health Equity Committee meetings include dedicated time following the presentation for meaningful discussion, connection and networking, participant updates, and reports on committee and MPHA activities.
Meetings are scheduled for the 3rd Thursday of the month from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Currently all meetings are virtual. Meetings are open to MPHA members and non-members who want to learn more and take action on advancing health equity in Minnesota.
For more information about the Health Equity Committee, please email healthequity@mpha.net and we will get back to you! The committee is co-chaired by Rodolfo Gutierrez, Erica Fishman, and Sara Rogers.