You are invited to join us at our Indigenous Heath Seminar presented by Assistant Professor Teresa Brockie to learn about health equity through community-based prevention and intervention of suicide, trauma, and adverse childhood experiences among vulnerable populations.

Teresa Brockie (Ibigeewatsi) is a member of the White Clay (A'aniniin) Nation from the Fort Belknap Reservation, Montana. She is an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing with a joint appointment at the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health in the Department of International Health, Baltimore, Maryland. Dr Brockie earned her PhD at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. She combines her lived experience, A'aniiih culture and stories passed down from her mother and grandmother to inform her research among vulnerable Indigenous communities.

A fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and clinically trained as a public health nurse, Dr Brockie’s research focuses on achieving health equity through community-based prevention and intervention of suicide, trauma, and adverse childhood experiences among vulnerable populations. She collaborates with tribal communities through community-based participatory research that taps local knowledge and assets to build ecologically feasible, culturally tailored, and sustainable prevention approaches. She has a longstanding collaborative partnership with the Dakota and Nakoda Tribes from the Fort Peck Reservation in rural Montana and has led an all Native American team to collect data on suicidal behavior among 288 Dakota and Nakoda youth.

She received the RADM Faye G. Abdellah Publication Award for Nursing Research by the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) Professional Advisory Committee for Nursing (N-PAC) for her manuscript “The Relationship of Adverse Childhood Experiences to PTSD, Depression, Poly-Drug Use and Suicide Attempt in Reservation-Based Native American Adolescents and Young Adults” published in the American Journal of Community Psychology. Her research training and experience, successful collaborations with Native American tribes, and extensive peer network provide a strong foundation for her to mentor Native American and other scholars pursuing similar careers. Dr Brockie’s current work concentrates on an innovative inter-generational intervention for enhancing cultural strengths and healing trauma among Indigenous parent-child dyads.

Venue: Lecture theatre 505-007

RSVP by Wednesday 18 December