Dalla Lana School of Public Health

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Presented by Waakebiness Institute for Indigenous Health and Ontario Network Environments For Indigenous Health Research …

Abstract: Dr. Victoria O’Keefe will share space and stories related to her family background, upbringing, and community-grounded motivations and hopes for strengths-based Indigenous Health research.

Speaker biography: Victoria O’Keefe, PhD is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and a member of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma. Dr. O’Keefe is the inaugural Mathuram Santosham Endowed Chair in Native American Health at Johns Hopkins University. She is an Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Department of International Health (Social and Behavioral Interventions Program), an Associate Director at the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health, and a Licensed Clinical Psychologist. Dr. O’Keefe’s community-based participatory research with Indigenous communities focuses on strengths-based and culturally-informed suicide prevention, mental health promotion, and wellness.