Caleigh Curley, DrPh
Diné and Hopi
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Position(s):
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Community, Environment and Policy, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health; Research Program Administrator, Department of Community, Environment and Policy, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health; Indigenous Data Sovereignty Doctoral Scholar, Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance
Caleigh Curley is a citizen of the Diné and Hopi Tribe; raised on the Navajo Nation and now living on O’odam lands as a Doctoral Candidate in the Public Health Policy and Management Program at the University of Arizona. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Sciences and a Master of Public Health in Health Promotion from Northern Arizona University. Her research explores the intersection of Indigenous health, public health policy, and data governance. She has over six years of experience working with Tribes, Tribal organizations, and urban Indian organizations. She is passionate about improving the health of Tribal nations through health policy and looks forward to learning more about policy development and analysis in her studies. Her goal is to apply what she has learned to provide expert analysis and guidance to senior and political leadership on policy, regulatory, and legislative issues that impact Indigenous peoples’ health.
Current Project(s):
Dissertation: Medicaid Enrollment Rates on the Navajo Nation: Current Trends and Key Challenges. Long-Term Goal: To increase Medicaid enrollment rates among American Indian and Alaska Native people in Arizona. Objective: To assess strengths and barriers of the Medicaid enrollment process within IHS and Tribal facilities on the Navajo Nation.
Collab project title: Linking Research to Policy: Indigenous leaders’ and individuals’ perspectives on research, governance, and data sharing in Arizona. Long-Term Goal: To enhance tribal data governance in Arizona. Research Objective: To review tribal norms and practices for Indigenous specimen and data governance, and to assess Indigenous leaders’ and individuals’ perspectives on research, governance, and data sharing to inform the development of tribal data governance policies and practices in Arizona.
Publication(s):
Curley C, Eddie R, Tallis K, Lane TS, Yazzie D, Sanderson PR, Lorts C, Shin S, Behrens TK, George C, Antone-Nez R, Ashley C, de Heer HD. The Navajo Nation Healthy Diné Nation Act: Community Support of a 2% Tax on Unhealthy Foods. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2023 Sep-Oct 01;29(5):622-632. https://doi.org/10.1097/PHH.0000000000001753
Garba, I., Sterling, R., Plevel, R., Carson, W., Cordova-Marks, F. M., Cummins, J., Curley, C., David-Chavez, D., Fernandez, A., Hiraldo, D., Hiratsuka, V., Hudson, M., Jäger, M. B., Jennings, L. L., Martinez, A., Yracheta, J., Garrison, N. A., & Carroll, S. R. (2023). Indigenous Peoples and research: Self-determination in research governance. Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, 8, 1272318. https://doi.org/10.3389/frma.2023.1272318
Email: ccurley@arizona.edu