Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Special Delivery: Transporting Iñupiat Mothers and Babies in Northwest Alaska

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该项目是一个论文研究项目，将调查阿拉斯加农村卫生从业人员将“高危”孕妇运送到城市中心分娩的做法对社会，文化和健康的影响。 研究人员将与阿拉斯加西北部的妇女合作，使用人种学方法，包括案例研究和录像，以研究这种做法的社会和经济方面。研究人员希望，这项研究将提供一个更全面的，文化包容性的分析农村儿童分娩的做法和政策的卫生从业人员对阿拉斯加土著妇女。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This project is a dissertation research project that will investigate the social, cultural, and health effects of rural Alaskan health practitioners' practice of transporting "high risk" pregnancy women into urban centers for child birth. The researcher will be collaborating with women in Northwest Alaska, using ethnographic methods, including case studies and videography to examine the social and economic aspects of this practice. The investigator hopes that the research will provide a more holistic, culturally inclusive analysis of rural child birthing practices and the policies of health practitioners toward Alaska Native women.