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December 11, 2020

Ho’omaika’i Dr. Kamaka, for 20 years of service!

Instead of a full-seated auditorium there was a collage of faces on Zoom. There was no round of applause but congratulatory comments still flooded a chat box. In a world where many work situations have. MORE

November 19, 2020

NIH awards advance care planning study for Native Hawaiian elders and their families during the pandemic in Hawai’i

Dr. Marjorie Mau along with Dr. Michael Paasche-Orlow  of the Boston Medical Center, and Dr. Angelo Volandes of Harvard and four community partners will co-lead this project. The partners include Kula no nā Po’e Hawai’i. MORE

October 9, 2020

NHH community health elective students get creative amidst the COVID chaos

Dr. Martina Kamaka and students enrolled in the community health elective, “Native Hawaiian Health: Past, Present, Future” (one of the JABSOM community health programs), in collaboration with students and teachers from Ke Kula ʻo Samuel. MORE

September 24, 2020

COVID-19 Hits NH and PI Communities the Hardest

Drs. Kaholokula, Samoa, Miyamoto, Palafox and Daniels in the Hawaii Journal of Health and Social Welfare for a Special Column on COVID-19’s Impact on Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Communities. Click here to read the. MORE

January 10, 2020

Dr. Kalani Brady is Top Doctor of the Year!

Continental Who’s Who lists Dr. Kalani Brady as Top Doctor of the Year in the field of Medicine.  Dr. Brady is Director of Faculty Affairs, Director of Continuing Medical Education (CME) and Associate Professor of. MORE

December 10, 2019

Nomination to local book awards for a collection featuring contributors from the JABSOM Department of Native Hawaiian Health

Hoʻi Hou Ka Mauli Ola: Pathways to Native Hawaiian Health, which features over thirty contributors from the Department of Native Hawaiian Health (DNHH) at the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM), has been nominated. MORE

November 30, 2019

International Recognition for the Department of Native Hawaiian Health’s C3 Teaching Team

The C3 teaching team from the Department of Native Hawaiian Health won a prestigious LIMElight award for “Sustained Excellence in Indigenous Health Curriculum Implementation.” The award recognizes “outstanding approaches to the implementation of Indigenous health. MORE

October 30, 2019

JABSOM faculty among Hawaiʻi health professionals chosen for exclusive national leadership program

For the first time, Hawaiʻi professionals have been chosen for the exclusive Robert Woods Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Clinical Scholars Program. Clinical Scholars is a national leadership development program for multidisciplinary health care providers who team. MORE