Northwest Indian College
Bellingham, WA
William (“Bill”) L. Freeman, MD, MPH, CIP is the Program Director of the Center for Health, Northwest Indian College (NWIC), and NWIC’s Human Protections Administrator. NWIC is a Tribal College, chartered by the Lummi Nation, Bellingham, WA. He has worked in Indian health for his entire medical career – first, in the summer after Year 1 of medical school, for the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community to survey its members about health program needs. After Family Medicine Residency and MPH, he served in the Indian Health Service (IHS) for 25½ years—for 13 years at the Lummi Indian Tribal Health Center, then as Director of the IHS Research Program. In that latter position, he promoted community-based participatory research (CBPR) with Native people and Tribes, and he Chaired the IHS IRB. Since “retiring” from IHS in 2002, he has been with NWIC full time. He was a non-directed living kidney donor in 2008; the recipient and her pre-owned kidney are doing very well 12 years later His research interests include: CBPR & Data Sovereignty; resiliency and strengths of Native people; substance abuse and suicide prevention; people with developmental or physical disabilities; preventive mental health; ethics of research involving Native people and communities; concerns and desires by individual and community participants in research; and ethics of living kidney donation. His wife, Carolyn Robbins, and he are privileged to live on the Lummi Reservation with the proud Lummi people.
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E02 - Indigenous-Centered Approaches to the New Common Rule and the Single IRB Mandate
Friday, November 19, 2021
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM ET