Epidemiologist
Cherokee Nation
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
My name is Dr. Andrea Blair PhD, currently I am an epidemiologist with Cherokee Nation Public Health Department. In this role I am responsible for school-based surveillance and evaluation for schools on Cherokee Nation Reservation. This includes the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, the School Health Profiles Survey, and Adverse Childhood Experiences surveillance surveys. I am also an evaluator for the School Health and Wellness grant. In addition I have a research project utilizing EHR data to determine risk factors for syphilis and non-initiation of treatment in the AI/AN population in collaboration with the infectious disease department at Cherokee Nation Health Services. My long term goal is to be able to utilize Cherokee Nation Health Services EHR data in addition to other large datasets to address health disparities within our patient population and the AI/AN population as a whole.