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CHAPEL HILL -- Applications are being sought from American Indians for Master's Degrees programs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health.
Applications are being accepted for enrollment in nine areas of study in public health, says coordinator David McCoy. Those areas are biostatistics, environmental sciences and engineering, epidemiology, health policy and administration, health education, maternal and child health, nutrition, parasitology and laboratory practice, and public health nursing.
The University at Chapel Hill is one of four institutions in the United States receiving funds from the Indian Health Service, a U.S. government agency responsible for providing care to American Indians.
"It's a travesty that American Indians suffer and die at higher rates from heart disease, accidents, cancer, liver disease,...