Native Voices: Native Peoples' Concepts of Health and Illness

Learn more about how Native concepts of health and illness are tied to community, land, and spirit in the Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness exhibit on the second floor of the library near B-233 now through September 30. This exhibit explores how wellness and culture are connected for Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians. This exhibition was developed and produced by the US National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health.

Native Voices Panel

Join us on September 23, 12:45 PM-1:45 PM, in person in C-225 or on Zoom (go.hawaii.edu/aSc) for a panel, moderated by Dr. Kauʻi Baumhofer Merritt, with kumu from the Native Hawaiian Health and Healing program sharing their knowledge and thoughts on health and healing. Learn more about our speakers below.

About the Speakers

Kumu Lomilomi Ka‘iulani Akamine (MA) is a Cultural Practitioner and the Director of the Center for Adults Returning to Education at the University of Hawaiʻi-West Oʻahu. Her passions include being an Aloha Warrior and creating educational opportunities that integrate Hawaiian and Western practices to sustain and foster the foundations of universal student success

Kumu Lāʻau Lapaʻau Kōnane Brumblay (MA, LMT) is a lāʻau lapaʻau practitioner for 13 years and a lomilomi practitioner for 7.

Kumu Hoʻoponopono Lahela Kruse (MSW, CSAC)

Moderator Dr. Kau‘i Merritt (ScD, MPH, MA) is an Associate Professor of Indigenous Health Sciences and the lead faculty member for the University of Hawai‘i-West O‘ahu’s Hawaiian and Indigenous Health and Healing programs. Her work addresses how social and cultural environments are embodied within individuals and how those embodied risk factors manifest as the unequal distribution of disease between populations.