When the first cases of COVID-19 surfaced in China in early January, Allison Barlow, SPH '97 (MPH), director of the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health, knew that controlling the coronavirus was going to be particularly difficult on reservations, where health disparities are starkly apparent.
The center's website notes that American Indian people were "once the healthiest people on earth [but] today face critical health disparities, including the highest rates of obesity, diabetes, y