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Katie Schultz
Assistant Professor of Social Work, School of Social Work
University of Michigan
Education/Degree:
1 Social Work (University of Washington)
About
Katie Schultz, MSW, PhD, focuses her research on health equity among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations. She examines violence and associated health outcomes; community and cultural connectedness as protective factors; and culturally-derived interventions. A citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, she is interested in innovative conceptual and methodological research with tribal communities rooted in Indigenous knowledges and sustainable solutions by and for Native peoples.
Current Work
Dr. Schultz’s current work investigates relationships between intimate partner violence, substance misuse and other health outcomes among Native women as well as dating and relationships among AI/AN adolescents. She is Principal Investigator on a study examining risk (violence and substance misuse) and protective factors (cultural practices and beliefs) associated with lower recidivism among AI/AN women on probation or parole in Alaska. She is also a faculty affiliate with the the Vivian A. and James L. Curtis Center for Health Equity Research and Training at the University of Michigan School of Social Work where she is co-leading a collaboration with Uniting Three Fires Against Violence, a statewide tribal domestic violence and sexual assault coalition, to develop research to address violence and health equity among tribal communities in Michigan.
Research Area Keyword(s)
American Indian and Alaska Native health equity, community and cultural connectedness, culturally-resonant research methods and interventions, substance misuse, Violence