• Pregnant and want Poi? A team of researchers led by a Native Hawaiian wahine from the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center are inviting pregnant women from the windward side of Oʻahu (from Koʻolaupoko to Koʻolauloa) to participate in a 4-week project. The goal of the project is to learn more about how eating poi may support health during pregnancy.

    Published On: March 25th, 2026Categories: Blog
  • Health community and agency response to the disastrous circumstances resulting from the weeklong Kona Low weather conditions.

    Published On: March 25th, 2026Categories: Blog
  • 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.

    Published On: January 23rd, 2026Categories: Blog
  • 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.

    Published On: January 4th, 2026Categories: Blog
  • 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.

    Published On: December 31st, 2025Categories: Blog
  • 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.

    Published On: October 1st, 2025Categories: Blog