Learning How to Ask: Reflections on Engaging American Indian Research Participants

Felicia Schanche Hodge1, Sally Maliski, Mary Cadogan

  • 1Felicia Schanche Hodge holds a joint position as professor in the School of Public Health and the School of Nursing at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is an enrolled member of the Wailaki tribe of Northern California and heads the Center for American Indian/Indigenous Research and Education (CAIIRE) at UCLA. Sally Maliski is an assistant professor in the School of Nursing and is a co-investigator at CAIIRE. Mary Cadogan is an adjunct professor in the School of Nursing and is a co-investigator at CAIIRE. Tracy L. Itty is a research associate at CAIIRE and is the project director of the Reducing Cancer Symptom Barriers among American Indians project. Briana Cardoza is a research associate at CAIIRE and is the project director of the HPV and American Indian College Students project.

American Indian Culture and Research Journal
|March 17, 2012
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