Odeh Center Program Archive

00:00:00 – Yen Azzaro, graphic recorder and illustrator
00:49:05 – Introduction to Centering Knowledge Translation, by Odeh Center Director Adriana Black
00:54:16 – Centering Knowledge Translation in Health Equity for Empowered Communities, by Dr. Brenikki Floyd, Associate Dean for Community Engagement at the UIC School of Public Health

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Presented on August 28, 2025 by Brenikki Floyd, PhD, MPH, Associate Dean for Community Engagement at the UIC School of Public Health, and Yen Azzaro, graphic recorder and illustrator. The goal of this session was to center and care for communities by discussing methods that can be utilized in public health practice to co-create knowledge and movements of resistance. Yen Azzaro gave a community tutorial on how to do graphic recording through a series of warm up exercises, a doodle lesson and methods to organize note taking.

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Presented by Karriem S. Watson, DHSc, MS, MPH, executive director of Mile Square Health Center, on August 28 , 2025. The goal of Dr. Watson’s dialogue was to describe the history of Mile Square Health Center, one of the oldest Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) in the country, and yield the floor to past, current and future UI Health and UIC leaders who will reinvigorate our audience as we commence a new academic year together. He acknowledges that a teamed approach to practice is critical to building trustworthiness, thus he brought guests with him to walk us through a journey of Mile Square Health Center’s past, present and future:

• Mary Maryland, PhD ’94, MSN, APRN, RN, FAAN, UIC College of Nursing alumnus
• Nicole Gastala, MD, Director of Behavioral Health and Addiction, Mile Square Health Center
• Jonathan Banks, BS ’21, DMD/PhD candidate, UIC College of Dentistry

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Presented by Leda Mugayar, DDS, MS, on December 3, 2024. Dr. Mugayar is director of the Inclusive Care Clinic at the UIC College of Dentistry, and the Inclusive Care Clinic team. She discussed how the implementation of the Inclusive Care Clinic emphasizes the importance of cultural competency, accessibility, and patient-centered care. The goal of this talk is to discuss how academic training can equip future professionals to address patients with special health care needs and create an inclusive environment.
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Compassion in Action: Delivering Medical Care in Navajo Nation was a program hosted on November 13, 2024. Attendees were able to connect with healthcare practitioners and community health advocates from Gallup, New Mexico who work exclusively with Native populations to listen and engage in dialogue with one another about what each of us can do to better educate ourselves on Native health and be better healthcare advocates.

Accessible Transcript of Compassion in Action Video

00:00:00 – Welcome and traditional blessing by Mattee Jim
00:02:54 – Welcome and remarks by UIC Vice Chancellor for Heath Affairs Robert Barish
00:08:28 – Introduction by Adriana Black, Odeh Center founding director
00:15:38 – Rural Medicine in Gallup, New Mexico and Navajo Nation, presented by Mia Lozada & Jennie Wei
01:21:17 – Treatment of Substance Use Disorders in Native Communities, presented by Sheryl Livingston
02:13:41 – Covid-19, Structural Racism, and its Effects in the Native American Southwest, presented by Marisha Leonard-Bitahy, Mia Lozada & Jennie Wei
03:18:03 – Gender Affirming Care in a Rural Native American Community, presented by Mattee Jim & Jennie Wei

Presented by Andrew Foell, PhD, MSW, MPP of the UIC Jane Addams College of Social Work on Tuesday, October 22, 2024.
Dr. Foell explored the vital connections between housing and health, emphasizing the critical role of housing as a social determinant that shapes health outcomes. The goal of this talk was to provide an overview of current projects at the intersections of housing and health and highlight strategies for improving housing conditions, reducing health disparities, and advancing housing and health equity.
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Presented by David Camacho PhD, MSW, MSG of the UIC College of Applied Health Sciences on September 17, 2024.
Attendees learned about Dr. Camacho’s Dolores and Soledad study that examined narratives of English and Spanish speaking older Latinx adults living with chronic pain and/or loneliness, gain examples from practices employed, and learn recommendations for practicing diversity in future research with older Latinx communities.
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00:00:00 – Welcome, opening remarks and Q&A with Dr Robert Barish
00:12:35 – Opening of Program and Introduction of Session I
00:16:29 – Water (Nibi):The Beginning of Life, presented by Maryellen Baker (Ojibwe)
01:10:27 – Introduction of Session II, Women and Water: Teaching, Singing and Healing
01:14:23 – Greg Hermann (Ojibwe)
01:40:18 – Ann Hermann (Mohawk)
01:51:16 – Bill Buchholtz (Algonquin/Metis)
02:14:31 – Stanley Oda
02:22:40 – Karen Donahoe (Ojibwe)
02:59:36 – Session III: Reflections of Mother Earth, all presenters

An Odeh Center Signature Community Event hosted on Earth Day 2024 (April 22) to bring awareness to the healing power of water. Native American elders spoke, taught and sang about the sacredness of water, including Maryellen Baker (Ojibwe) founder and director of Abiinooji Aki, Inc., a non-profit organization located on the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation. The goal was to connect, learn and reflect how we can protect our water and help restore our communities. Feel free to leave feedback for Reflections of Mother Earth after watching.

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Presented by Sarah Abboud, PhD of the UIC College of Nursing on April 16, 2024.
The goal of this talk was to describe Dr. Abboud’s process of conducting community-based participatory research (CBPR) with Arab Americans in Chicago, a historically and systematically marginalized and invisible population. She also discussed the strengths and challenges of CBPR, especially in the context of a stigmatized topic such as gender-based violence.
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Presented by David Ansari, PhD of the University of Illinois College of Medicine on March 26, 2024.
This talk examined how health professions students develop clinical and therapeutic skills and expertise in contexts of injustice and how institutions play a role in the “haunted curriculum” by both challenging and reproducing specters of violence.
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Presented by Tiffany N. Ford, PhD of the UIC School of Public Health, and MPH student Tynetta Hill-Muhammad on February 27, 2024.
The program engaged participants in a facilitated discussion about the shared themes and implications of these important works on the lives and health of people racialized as Black in the United States.
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Presented by Tristesse Burton, PhD of the UIC College of Pharmacy on October 4, 2023.
Dr. Burton talked about indigenous plants that have benefits and use in the treatment of women’s health issues.
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