Meet Our Founder
Damian Chase-Begay, PhD, MS
Dr. Chase-Begay is an associate professor in the University of Montana School of Public and Community Health Sciences. He is affiliated with the UM Center for Population Health Research, the Montana Clinical Translational Research Center, and the American Indian Governance and Policy Institute.
Dr. Chase-Begay currently has a career development award in implementation science from the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), out of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to culturally adapt an evidence-based substance abuse prevention intervention to incorporate traditional cultural and ceremonial practices and test the intervention with Indigenous adults at all five Urban Indian Health Centers in Montana. He also has a Health Equity Scholar for Action (HES4A) grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to explore the scope, application, and structure of Indigenous Research Methodologies in Western health research settings.