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CIHRP, Chickasaw Nation earn inaugural American Heart Association Food is Medicine Award

The Center for Indigenous Health Research and Policy (CIHRP) at OSU Center for Health Sciences and the Chickasaw Nation have been recognized by the American Heart Association with the inaugural Health Care by Food Most Impactful Food is Medicine
CIHRP, Chickasaw Nation earn inaugural American Heart Association Food is Medicine Award
CIHRP, Chickasaw Nation earn inaugural American Heart Association Food is Medicine Award

Mon, Apr 27, 2026

The Center for Indigenous Health Research and Policy (CIHRP) at OSU Center for Health Sciences and the Chickasaw Nation have been recognized by the American Heart Association with the inaugural Health Care by Food Most Impactful Food is Medicine

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OSU-COM, Cherokee Nation honored by Harvard Kennedy School

Mon, Dec 8, 2025

The historic partnership between OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine and the Cherokee Nation to open the country's first tribally affiliated medical school received High Honors recognition from the Harvard Kennedy School Project on Indigenous

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OSU Medicine, Choctaw Nation launch innovative virtual care clinic in Antlers

Wed, Apr 30, 2025

Oklahoma State University Medicine and The Choctaw Nation Health Services Authority have joined forces to establish the Antlers Community Health Clinic, a first-of-its-kind in Oklahoma.

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Historic inaugural class graduates from OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Cherokee Nation

Fri, May 17, 2024

Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Cherokee Nation celebrated a monumental achievement on May 16 as its inaugural class of 46 medical students graduated from the country's first tribally affiliated medical school.

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OSU-CHS awarded $16 million grant to improve health in rural, tribal and urban communities

Tue, Nov 14, 2023

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) recently awarded OSU Center for Health Sciences a $16 million grant to enhance the school's recruitment, retention and training programs focused on rural, tribal, and urban and underserved

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Med student spends time in Alaska as part of tribal medicine training

Wed, Nov 16, 2022

For medical student Ashton Glover Gatewood, spending time in Wasilla, Alaska, treating patients and learning from physicians at the Benteh Nuutah Valley Native Primary Care Center was both quite similar and very different to her time in tribal

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