Frank Charles Dukepoo and the Role of Indigenous Leadership in Federal and Tribal Public Health Policy

Frank Charles Dukepoo and the Role of Indigenous Leadership in Federal and Tribal Public Health Policy

Throughout the latter half of the twentieth century, public health policy in the United States increasingly depended upon genetic research to undergird strategies for the prevention, screening, and treatment of diseases. Federal agencies expanded investment in biomedical science, as funding for the National Institutes of Health increased from about $1.5 billion in 1970 to over $11 billion by the early 1990s. During this period, Native American c…