Education is related to the success of young people in a variety of ways, noted roundtable member Jeffrey Henderson, president and chief executive officer of the Black Hills Center for American Indian Health and moderator of the panel on education at the workshop. In particular, education can generate resilience, he said, and resilience in turn can drive educational attainment.
Three speakers at the workshop examined aspects of the relationship between education and health equity. Most of the interventions they described are designed to increase the representation of Native Americans in the health care and health research workforce, but experience with those interventions has produced lessons that can be applied much more broadly. (author abstract)