Cultivating a Cultural Connection to Food

Strengths-Based Mixed Methods Research to Inform Approaches to Eating and Nutrition Measurement in Urban American Indian/Alaska Native Communities

Dr. Tara Maudrie will present on her dissertation work – a mixed methods approach to produce a culturally informed nutrition measurement for Native communities. 

Presenter:

Tara Maudrie, PhD, MSPH (Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians)

Dr. Maudrie is an enrolled citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians (Snapping Turtle Clan) and an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Social Work. As a public health researcher specializing in Indigenous food systems, nutrition, and health, her community-based participatory research focuses on developing strengths-based, culturally grounded approaches to nutrition, with the goal of promoting holistic health and food sovereignty among Indigenous communities across North America. Tara has partnered with urban Native communities in Baltimore and Minneapolis, as well as Tribal communities, to advance food sovereignty and nutrition research. Her work is deeply informed by her family’s history of commercial treaty fishing, and she proudly continues these food sovereignty traditions through her own hunting, fishing, and foraging practices, which also shape her academic research. 

About this webinar series:

This webinar is funded by NIDDK through the Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Diabetes Translation Research (CAIANDTR; P30 DK092923). CAIANDTR is a part of the Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health at the Colorado School of Public Health.