Dr. Allison Kelliher

Biography

Allison Kelliher, MD, is a Research Associate at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and the Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Indigenous Health. She is a physician trained as a Traditional Healer from the Koyukon Athabascan tribe in Nome, Alaska. Kelliher's work is focused on weaving traditional Indigenous healing practices with modern biomedical research to enhance health equity. She is the founder and director of the American Indian Collaborative Research Network (AICoRN), a Practice-Based Research Network at the University of North Dakota. Additionally, she serves as an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Indigenous Health and has held faculty positions at the University of Washington and the University of Alaska Anchorage. Kelliher is actively involved in curriculum development aimed at decolonizing and indigenizing educational practices. She champions environmental justice and Indigenous health issues, advocating for these causes at international platforms such as the United Nations. She has received multiple accolades including the Distinguished Alumna Award from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals on Indigenous determinants of health.

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