Abstract:
Traditional practices require access to sacred places, materials and knowledge. No evaluation is needed to test the benefit of ceremony on health and wellness, as this is traditional knowledge, proven by thousands of years of Indigenous Peoples knowing. In this webinar, Dr. Taualii will share her work, led by Native Hawaiian traditional practitioners, which measures the relationship between increasing access to ceremony and health status. Access to ceremony can be defined as, but not limited to; a) ability to physically be in a sacred place/space, b) ability to gather traditional plants or materials, c) ability to be with a traditional practitioner, and/or d) access to traditional knowledge (which could include language.) Her study aims to test the hypothesis that removing barriers to ceremony leads to better physical and mental health status.
Moderated by: Dr. Suzanne Stewart
Biography:
Maile Tauali‘i, PhD, MPH, serves as an Assistant Clinical Investigator for Hawaii Permanente Medical Group (HPMG) – the state’s largest multispecialty group practice.
Dr. Tauali‘i joined HPMG in 2018, in which she worked with the Center of Integrated Healthcare Research (CIHR) on the utility and validity of health information for racial minorities. Her research focused on eliminating health disparities, specifically for Indigenous Peoples and Native Hawaiians. Dr. Tauali‘i serves as a resource to HPMG physicians, providers, and staff in areas of research, cultural safety, and working in partnership with communities of Hawaii, especially to the Native Hawaiian population, as the first people of Hawaii.
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