About Us

The purpose of the American Indian Diabetes Prevention Center is to reduce and eventually eliminate the excess mortality, morbidity, and quality of life and culture lost due to diabetes. The primary impacts of the Center will be on diabetes, maternal health, infant mortality, and obesity. The Center confronts health disparities by focusing the expertise of a multi-disciplinary, multi-college team of diabetes researchers on specific biological, physiological, behavioral, and cultural stressors of the disease. The Center also has added non-university strengths owing to its partnership with the Oklahoma City Area Inter-tribal Health Board (covering all tribes in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas) and its Southern Plains Inter-Tribal Epidemiology Center. That the American Indian Diabetes Prevention Center is directed by an American Indian researcher is a significant part of its ability to relate to American Indian people who continue to endure health disparities.