Community-Informed Health Promotion Interventions with Indigenous Communities
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2026 | Viewed by 112
Special Issue Editors
Interests: building community capacity to achieve health equity in in Native American communities in the US; community-based participatory research; chronic disease prevention
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Community-informed health promotion interventions with Indigenous communities prioritize cultural relevance, trust-building, and community engagement to address persistent health disparities. Key obstacles to relevant intervention design and continuous programming includes limited local or cultural guidance, failure to address persistent systemic inequities, lack of sustainability plans, and inadequate resources, e.g., time for collaborative program development and engagement of traditional knowledge holders. The literature offers cases of adapted programs that were initially developed for non-Indigenous communities. Yet program design teams have few examples of effective, sustained interventions that are co-designed by community-academic collaborators and that integrated traditional knowledge, values, and practices into the program, through design, implementation and dissemination.
This Special Issue is designed to showcase approaches and methods used by community-academic teams to successful apply traditional knowledge to align with local cultural contexts and to share outcomes and strategies for sustainability.
Prof. Dr. Nicolette Teufel-Shone
Dr. Amanda M. Hunter
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- indigenous health
- health equity
- community-informed intervention
- cultural relevance
- community empowerment
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