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Making sure American Indian COVID-19 cases are counted, and feeding a hungry heart

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Abigail Echo-Hawk, director of the Urban Indian Health Institute and chief research officer for the Seattle Indian Health Board.

Echo-Hawk shares what inspired her journey in public health and explains the repercussions of excluding native people from health data.

This story was originally reported by Lizzie Wade, who profiled Echo-Hawk as part of Science’s “voices of the pandemic” series.Next, host Sarah Crespi interviews Danielle Murashige, a Ph.D.

student at the University of Pennsylvania, about her Science paper that attempts to quantify how much fuel a healthy heart needs.This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy.Listen to previous podcasts.About the Science PodcastDownload a transcript (PDF)..

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