Virginia Hedrick, MPH | Source | Executive Director at California Consortium for Urban Indian Health
Virginia Hedrick, MPH
Virginia Hedrick is the Executive Director for the Consortium for Urban Indian Health. She is enrolled member of the Yurok Tribe of California and is also of Karuk descent. Her prior work includes chronic disease prevention, implementation and policy impacts of the Affordable Care Act for California tribes, as well health research. In addition, she serves on the Board of Directors for The California Wellness Foundation as well as the California Pan Ethnic Health Network. Virginia holds bachelor of arts degrees in Sociology and American Indian Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, a Graduate Certificate in Maternal Child Health Epidemiology from the University of Arizona and a Master of Public Health Degree from Drexel University.
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California Consortium for Urban Indian Health
Executive Director
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Why Indigenous people in cities feel ‘invisible’ as pandemic wears on
14 states don’t publicly keep track of COVID-19 data for American Indians/Alaska Natives. “We know who we are, and these are our homelands, so to be rendered invisible is another incidence of historical trauma.”
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We have such an information gap in who is the most vulnerable. One thing about public health and infectious disease is you need all the information you can get to make decisions. For example, who are the people that have passed from COVID-19, were they diabetic or old? Is it the 18-30 age group testing positive?
