S1 Ep. 44 Exploring Food Sovereignty and Community Based Participatory Research with Dr. Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan and Cynthia Begay

"And, in some ways, I've even moved away from using the term 'intervention'– so much as I see it as a restoration of traditional practices." This episode was guest-hosted by Cynthia Begay, who was in conversation with Dr. Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan. As Native researchers, they talk about their experiences, changes in the public health field over the last 20 years, and their own growth away from Western models. They go on to explain the duality of working biculturally across really different ways of knowing, as well as the distinction between food systems and food sovereignty. This episode references Health Promotion Practices's 2021 Native and Indigenous Voices Collection by and with Native and Indigenous people, which is free through December 8th, 2021. One of Dr. Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan's early publications with HPP was "Community-Based Participatory Research With Native American Communities: The Chronic Disease Self-Management Program." This episode also mentions the article "Cigarette and E-Cigarette Retail Marketing on and Near California Tribal Lands" by Cynthia Begay, MPH, Claradina Soto, PhD, MPH, Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati, PhD, MPH, Rosa Barahona, BA, Yaneth L. Rodriguez, MPH, Jennifer B. Unger, PhD, and Sabrina L. Smiley, PhD, MPH, MCHES. If you have a moment, please provide your feedback here on what we are doing well and where we can improve!