JPHMP Direct January 17, 2025
In 2020, CNN grouped Indigenous peoples under the category “SOMETHING ELSE” in reference to exit polls in the presidential election. This type of data aggregation obscures and makes invisible meaningful data on Native peoples. It happens across disciplines, including in public health. In this blog post, we outline three examples specific to public health, and we discuss how Native Nations and peoples are affected. We also discuss recommendations for how we can begin to address this issue.
First, though public health has a long history of enumerating, or counting, its workforce, Tribal health organizations tend to be excluded from these endeavors. For example, the most recent comprehensive enumeration, conducted in 2024, did not include the Tribal public health workforce, focusing...
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