Regina Idoate, PhD
Associate Professor, UNMC Department of Health Promotion
Director, Spirituality, Culture & Health
Full Member, Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center
Regina Idoate, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Health Promotion of the UNMC College of Public Health, where she also serves as director of spirituality, culture and health. She is a full member of the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, and she provides leadership to the community and engagement core of the Great Plains IDeA-CTR.
Previously, Dr. Idoate was an assistant professor of Native American Studies in the UNO Department of Sociology & Anthropology. She also was an ssistant professor in the College of Education of Northern New Mexico College, adjunct faculty of Indigenous Liberal Studies at the Institute of American Indian Arts, and a program evaluator in the Interdisciplinary Center for Program Evaluation of UNMC's Munroe-Meyer Institute.
- 2014, PhD in Preventive & Societal Medicine, UNMC
- 2014, Graduate Certificate in Maternal & Child Health Epidemiology, University of Arizona
- 2010, M.A. in Christian Spirituality, Creighton University
- 2006, M.A. in Spanish Language and Culture, Arizona State University
- 1998, BS in Psychology, Arizona State University
- Practicing community-based and Indigenous research methods to address health disparities of mind, body and spirit
- Applying culturally-relevant ecological approaches in multi-level interventions
- Working in collaboration with interdisciplinary colleagues and community to explore the following:
- Indigenous Health Sovereignty
- Cultural Sovereignty
- Community Health Improvement
- Workforce Development
- Medical Humanities
- Spiritual Wellness
- Desmarais, M. M., & Robbins, R. E. (2019). From the ground up: Indigenizing medical humanities and narrative medicine.Survive & Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine, 4(1), 6.
- Idoate, R., Desmarais, M. M., Strong, B., Steinhoff, A., Tamayo, L., Carroll, G., ... & Hoyt, V. (2020). An Indigenist Theory of Health Advocacy. Great Plains Research, 30(1), 35-48.
- Idoate, R., Gilbert, M., King, K. M., Spellman, L., McWilliams, B., Strong, B., ... & Michaud, T. (2020). Urban American Indian Community Health Beliefs Associated with Addressing Cancer in the Northern Plains Region. Journal of Cancer Education, 1-9.
- Idoate, R., Desmarais, M., et al. (2020). (Accepted 11/2019). Promoting Spiritual Wellness on a College Campus through Community Based Participatory Research International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
- Borengasser, K., Rookwood, A.C., Solheim, J.C., Godfrey, M., Hastings, K.T., King, K.M., Robbins, H., Abney, M., Smith Jr., R., Tamayo, L. & Idoate, E. 2022. “Collective Re-Storying of Mentee and Mentor Experiences in a Cancer Research Education Program for American Indian and Alaska Native Students.” Journal of STEM Outreach, September, 1–14.
- Indigenous Health Education And Resources Taskforce (IHEART), Member
- American Indian Science and Engineering Society, President of Omaha Professional Chapter
- Fred and Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, Associate Member
- CityMatCH, Associate Member