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Local Serves on Panel at the National Institutes of Health to be an Emissary for Better Health for the Lakota People
For the 2nd year Peter Catches of Oceti Wakan in Pine Ridge was asked to serve on a panel at the National Institutes of Health with the Surgeon General as Chair. The focus was on Community-Based Participatory Research with focus on women and to help create better health equity. Other participants included Dr. Donald Warne, MD, who is a Lakota from Kyle and Professor in Women’s Health at NDSU, Hani Atrash, MD, National Director of Healthy Start, and other doctors and professors of health, philanthropy, and social innovations