Project Ina is seeking students interested in maternal health and tribal relations to join their team. They are building a mobile application that provides information on pregnancy at the Lake Traverse Reservation in South Dakota.
Through this app, they aim to decrease barriers to accessing pregnancy resources and foster community discussion about pregnancy in the reservation. In order to maximize the impact and usability of this application, they are co-designing it with members of the Lake Traverse community.
With funding from the Jefferson Public Citizens (JPC) Grant and the Community Based Undergraduate Research Grant (CBURG), they have visited South Dakota and co-designed a preliminary version of the app. In the next year, they will be conducting several focus-group workshops in order to finalize a beta-version of the app. Eventually, the goal is to completely hand over the final product to the tribe, as the project is linked to an effort to build the tribe's own capacity to manage mobile apps.
Project Ina is seeking 3 - 4 underclassmen students with experience in programming, research, education, or medicine to join the team for at least 1 to 2 years, as long-term commitment is integral to maintaining tribal relations.
Contact Aditi Takle at aht6fb@virginia.edu by March 5th for more information!
