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Past Presentation

Community Based Harm Reduction Program at the Lummi Tribal Health Center | July 19, 2022

Date of Presentation: July 19, 2022

Type: Past Presentation  

Program: Virtual Care Implementation  

The Hepatitis C and Harm Reduction team at the Lummi Tribal Health Center provides case management for people who are at risk or are currently in treatment for Hep C, and they also run the harm reduction program which includes the syringe service program as well as patient outreach in coordination with the department of integrated psychiatry as well as the medical department for people who need more hands on care management.

Recording:

Presented by:

Czarina Igama; Emma Elsner

Czarina Igama, MA-P is the Hepatitis C and Harm Reduction Project Assistant within the Harm Reduction Office at the Lummi Tribal Health Center. She graduated from Western Washington University with a B.S. in Public Health and a B.S. in Behavioral Neuroscience. She is passionate about serving vulnerable, marginalized communities through a lens that is cognizant of the social determinants of health to improve health outcomes. In the future, she plans to pursue an M.S. in Neuroscience followed by an MD/MPH dual degree as she values an interdisciplinary approach to education and healthcare.

Emma Elsner is the Hepatitis C and Harm Reduction project lead at the Lummi Tribal Health Center on the Lummi Nation reservation in Bellingham, Washington. She is a graduate from Western Washington University with a BA in Sociology. She has worked at the Lummi Tribal Health Center for 1.5 years working towards the micro-elimination of Hepatis C from the community, which goes hand in hand with running the Primary Integrated Care Syringe Service program through a harm reduction lens. She hopes to pursue a career as a Physician Assistant working in rural medicine and is committed to expanding care to the medically underserved.

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Date added: July 20, 2022