{"id":481,"date":"2014-12-08T12:35:52","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T19:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/innovate.studentorg.berkeley.edu\/?p=481"},"modified":"2014-12-08T12:35:52","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T19:35:52","slug":"the-final-mile-client-partners-in-health-wins-reach-award-for-work-in-navajo-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innovate.studentorg.berkeley.edu\/index.php\/the-final-mile-client-partners-in-health-wins-reach-award-for-work-in-navajo-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Final Mile client Partners In Health Wins REACH Award for work in Navajo Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cmhtine\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/twitter.com\/cmhtine', 'Christine Hamann');\">Christine Hamann<\/a>\u00a0is an\u00a0MBA\/MPH Candidate at the Haas School of Business and UC Berkeley School of Public Health.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Roughly the size of the state of West Virginia, Navajo Nation spans 27,425 square miles. It is dry, rural, and remote, and the USDA has classified the entire nation as a food desert. An estimated 10 percent of Navajo Nation members have diabetes, and three times that number are estimated to have pre diabetes. The Community Outreach, Patient Empowerment (COPE) Project is working to find community-based solutions to change the landscape of healthy food access in Navajo. The Final Mile, an Eat.Think.Design. team, took the charge of designing a reliable and consistent mechanism to bring healthy food into remote Navajo communities.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-482\" src=\"http:\/\/innovate.studentorg.berkeley.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/@my_400-300x199.jpeg\" alt=\"@my_400\" width=\"418\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/innovate.studentorg.berkeley.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/@my_400-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/innovate.studentorg.berkeley.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/@my_400-100x66.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/innovate.studentorg.berkeley.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/@my_400.jpeg 602w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/>\u00a0In August 2013, an\u00a0Eat.Think.Design.\u00a0student traveled to New Mexico to work with Partner In Health&#8217;s COPE team to\u00a0prototype different market interventions for getting fresh produce into communities with limited access to healthy foods in\u00a0Navajo Nation. This took place through\u00a0two prototypes&#8211;the first was used to determine what produce was in demand and the second was used to measure willingness to pay for those items. The responses collected via participant surveys at each prototype will help inform the location and type of future healthy food interventions for the COPE Project to build with Navajo Nation. The results informed the COPE team and partners that community members are indeed looking for a more permanent food option (i.e. physical store space) as opposed to a mobile market, and the action taken has sparked interest and commitment from several local partners.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-483\" src=\"http:\/\/innovate.studentorg.berkeley.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/@my_400-2-300x199.jpeg\" alt=\"@my_400-2\" width=\"390\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/innovate.studentorg.berkeley.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/@my_400-2-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/innovate.studentorg.berkeley.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/@my_400-2-100x66.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/innovate.studentorg.berkeley.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/@my_400-2.jpeg 602w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/>Due to the COPE Project&#8217;s focus on healthy food interventions and work proven through the ETD project, COPE was recently awarded a REACH grant for $1,000,000 per year for three\u00a0years that will be used for improving chronic disease prevention and access to healthy foods in Navajo Nation.<\/p>\n<p>For more information:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pih.org\/press\/partners-in-health-cope-awarded-3-million-to-decrease-chronic-diseases-in-n\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.pih.org\/press\/partners-in-health-cope-awarded-3-million-to-decrease-chronic-diseases-in-n', 'Partner In Health&#8217;s COPE program and award');\">Partner In Health&#8217;s COPE program and award<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Learn more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pih.org\/country\/navajo-nation\/about\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.pih.org\/country\/navajo-nation\/about', 'Partners in Health: Navajo Nation');\" class=\"etdfeast\">Partners in Health: Navajo Nation<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PIH\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/twitter.com\/PIH', '@PIH');\" class=\"etdfeast\">@PIH<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/COPEProject\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/COPEProject', 'COPE Facebook page');\" class=\"etdfeast\">COPE Facebook page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>*image credits:\u00a0http:\/\/www.pih.org\/media\/cope-slideshow<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring 2014 Team The Final Mile took the charge of designing a reliable and consistent mechanism to bring healthy food into remote Navajo communities through their work with Partner In Health&#8217;s COPE program. 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