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Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan
- Aimee Afable-Munsuz
- Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan
- Obidiugwu Kenrik Duru
- Hector M. Gonzalez
- Carlos Reyes-Ortiz
Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan
Project Title:
Changing Patterns in Health Behaviors and Risk Factors related to Chronic Diseases among Native Americans: 1996-2006.
Project database:
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/
Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan, MPH, DrPH, is a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine. Valarie's work focuses on community-based participatory research, including photovoice and participatory filmmaking, to reduce health disparities within the Native American population. She founded the Diabetes Community Action Project in San Jose, CA, a grass-roots Native American community organizing group to fight diabetes among Indians.
Valarie is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. She received her doctorate in public health from the University of California, Berkeley.