Jean
Forster, PhD, MPH, Co-Principal Investigator (University
of Minnesota, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health).
Dr. Forster has focused her research in the last several years
on prevention of tobacco use by youth, and has evaluated state
and local efforts to reduce youth tobacco use. She is the
principal investigator of several National
Cancer Institute (NCI) grants to evaluate the effects
of local policy change on commercial and social access to
tobacco, on initiation of tobacco use by youth, and on community
prevalence of adolescent smoking. She has numerous publications
on public health policy as a prevention study and adolescent
tobacco use. Jean teaches courses in public health policy
and legislative advocacy skills for public health.
John
Poupart, MPA, Co-Principal Investigator (American
Indian Policy Center). John Poupart was born and raised
on the Lac du Flambeau Indian Reservation. He is president and
founder of the American Indian Policy Center, a non-profit organization
that provides information on American Indian oral history, legal
and political status (sovereignty), and cultural features of
the native community. He helped start and sustain many American
Indian social service programs in the metropolitan area and
in greater Minnesota. He is active in his community and serves
as a consultant to numerous communiyt, state and local government
entities.
Kris
Rhodes, MPH, Coordinator (University of Minnesota, Division
of Epidemiology & Community Health). Kris is an enrolled
Anishinabe from the Fond du Lac Reservation in Minnesota. She
has worked in the area of tobacco prevention and control in
Indian country for more than 12 years. As coordinator of AICTP,
she works to establish an effective partnership to design and
conduct research that is conceived, driven, interpreted, and
applied by the Native community.
Genelle
Lamont, Research Assistant and NARCH Student Intern. PhD
expected May 2011. Genelle is an enrolled member of the Bad
River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. Genelle has completed
coursework for her master degree in public health from the University
of Minnesota. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Environmental
Studies and Spanish from the University of Minnesota-Duluth
and a Bachelor of Science in Cell/Molecular Biology and Geographic
Information System (GIS) certificate from the University of
Wisconsin-Superior in 2004. She has held past internship positions
at many reputable organizations and agencies including the Center
for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC), and the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH). Genelle
is also the recipient of many scholarships and awards, including
the Dean Finnegan Scholarship (2007), Alan Page Foundation Scholarship
(1997-2006), and McNair Student of the Year Award (2003).
AICTP
Steering Council :
AICTP
Mission Statement:
To determine, as a group, what we need to know, how we can
learn it, and how to use what we learn to reduce tobacco abuse
among young, urban American Indian people in the Twin Cities.
AICTP Steering Council
Members: Linda Azure (Anishinabe/Assiniboine/Nakota), Lannesse
Baker (Anishinabe), Hope Flanagan (Six Nations), Jean Forster,
Julie Green (Anishinabe), Shana Hill (Klamath), Genelle Lamont
(Anishinabe), Julia Littlewolf (Anishinabe), John Poupart (Anishinabe),
Kris Rhodes (Anishinabe), Loretta Rivera (Seneca), Donald Whipple-Fox
(Dakota), Lana White-King (Dakota).
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