2nd Annual Haku Healthcare American Indian Student Summit – FREE
8:00am – 5:00pm on April 5, 2025
Student Resource Building
UC Santa Barbara
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More details at Association of American Indian Physicians
The Haku Healthcare American Indian Student Summit is a free one-day student conference to be held on the campus of the University of California Santa Barbara on Saturday April 5, 2025. It is funded primarily by the IHEART (Indigenous Health, Education, and Resources Taskforce) and represents a regional event for California and Hawaii. The host and co-sponsor will be the American Indian and Indigenous Cultural Resource Center at UCSB. UCSB will work in collaboration with the Association of American Indian Physicians and the Association of Native American Medical Students in organizing this event.
This is the second summit following a successful program in March 2019 at the Santa Ynez Chumash Tribal Offices. It is a program for American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) early college students interested in pursuing careers in the health professions. The daylong event will engage participants, which includes AI/AN health professionals and AI/AN students in a dialogue about the stagnant shortage of AI/AN in medicine, other health professional fields, and in public health. What makes the Haku Healthcare American Indian Student Summit innovative, is that it is co-directed by American Indian medical students. Rather than merely duplicating existing programs of this type in this country, we hope to provide an intimate and safe forum for discussion with a select group of students and professionals.
By attending this program, students will receive mentorship from current medical students and health professionals, as well as guidance on applying to medical school and other health professional schools. We also intend to stimulate student interest in pursuing a career serving rural and urban medically underserved areas, especially within the state of California, or towards eventually working in specialty fields addressing health conditions common among AI/AN. Overall, by increasing the number of AI/AN students who go into health professional fields, we can help move the needle on improving health care for AI/AN people in this state and in our nation.
