In the Office of Native Health and Wellness, we believe we have a duty to serve Native communities in their pursuits of optimal wellbeing for their families and future generations.

In addition to practicing MPHI’s core values, our work with Native communities for almost 20 years has been guided by our commitment to:

  • Meaningfully engage with Tribal leaders and community members in assessment, planning, research, and evaluation.
  • Support community-driven efforts to improve wellbeing that are grounded in culture, values, and traditional practices and wisdom.
  • Seek creative, culturally-responsive ways to improve the availability and quality of data for tribal decision-makers.
  • Always be reliable, trustworthy, humble advocates for our partners’ best interests.
  • Pursue opportunities for collaboration that are mutually beneficial, help generate resources, and support long lasting partnerships.
“[Our] public health staff are critically overloaded with multiple tasks. The provision of talented, skilled, and highly trained individuals to support our consortium has been enormously helpful in the completion of all tasks… We could not have done the same job without this wonderful assistance.”
Tribal Project Coorindator

For over a decade, we’ve partnered with tribes, tribal organizations, and Indian Health agencies, on more than 50 projects. Our collaborations with Native communities…

  • Health education
  • Commercial tobacco prevention & control
  • Opioid use
  • Nutrition
  • Physical activity
  • Obesity
  • Diabetes
  • Cancer
  • Behavioral health
  • Trauma
  • Suicide prevention
  • Adolescent health & development
  • Maternal & infant health

  • Health equity practice
  • Policy, system, & environmental interventions
  • Community health assessment & improvement planning
  • Population health surveillance & monitoring
  • Public health department accreditation readiness
  • Workforce development
  • Practice based evidence

  • Program evaluation & research
  • Training & capacity building assistance
  • Program planning & development
  • Grant writing
  • Strategic planning
  • Facilitation
  • Data analysis & visualization
  • Performance measurement
  • Reporting
  • Dissemination

Our Partners

Our partners are great resources for tribal public health professionals. Check out a few of them for yourself

“The professionalism and expertise of MPHI staff has proven to be invaluable in meeting and exceeding all of our evaluation needs… MPHI staff have proven themselves to be enthusiastically accessible and extremely credible.”

Program Manager, Inter-Tribal Council of MI