Are you Native Hawaiian and currently pregnant? You may be eligible to participate in a research study conducted by Native Hawaiian researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center. Researchers are interested in Native Hawaiian first-time pregnant women's perceptions around infant feeding practices.
The island of Kanaloa Kaho'olawe is a metaphor for one’s own resilience – years of trauma and abuse can be reversed with aloha, community, recognition of one’s own strength and self-reliance.
The Native Hawaiian Health Scholarship Program is proud to announce ten scholarships awarded to students in a variety of health care professions: nursing, physician assistance, social work, clinical psychology, dental hygiene and medicine. These scholars have committed to returning to provide care in Hawai'i's underserved communities.
Hoʻi i ka Piko Returning to our Center for Recovery and Healing is a reminder that our ancestors lived in balance with ʻāina, spirit, and relationships. They perpetuated knowledge through oli, and kaʻao (stories) about the deep knowing that our well-being was inseparable from the world around us. That piece called us to return to our piko, to the center of who we are as kānaka, and to reimagine recovery and healing not as a foreign concept, but as a journey of remembering, restoring, and reconnecting.
Michele recently embarked on a new chapter of her career as Administrative Operations Specialist with Papa Ola Lōkahi.
ʻŌiwi Breastfeeding Week is observed from August 8–14, 2025. This week is dedicated to celebrating and supporting hānai waiū, breastfeeding. It is a time to honor the joys and challenges that come with hānai waiū, and to uplift the experiences of our ʻohana who choose to and/or can hānai waiū to their keiki.
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