Teshia G Solomon, PhD

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Associate Professor, Family and Community Medicine
Biography
Teshia G. Arambula Solomon,PD)(Choctaw/Mexican American) is University of Arizona Distinguished Outreach Professor, Faculty, Associate Professor in Family and Community medicine and co-Director of the American Indian Research Center for Health in partnership with the Inter-Tribal Council of Arizona. Dr. Solomon was lead editor and author on the book Conducting Health Research with Native American Communities. She is co-author of the Cultural Wisdom Declaration published in the National Tribal Behavioral Health Agenda and the National Tribal Public Health Agenda. She serves as the Technical Advisor on the NIH Tribal Advisory Council, is a member of the National Academy of Science, Engineering and Math, Health Equity Roundtable, and served on a Blue Ribbon Panel Working Group for the Beau Biden Cancer Moonshot Initiative.
Cancer Focus
Indigenous people
Community engagement
Cancer Researcher Training
Selected Publications
J. K. Cunningham, Ritchey, J., and Solomon, T. G. Arambula, “With socioeconomic status controlled, cigarette use is lower among American Indians/Alaska Natives than whites.”, Drug Alcohol Depend, vol. 211, p. 107836, 2020. PMID: 32145982
K. Batai, Sanderson, P. R., Hsu, C. - H., Joshweseoma, L., Russell, D., Joshweseoma, L., Ojeda, J., Burhansstipanov, L., Brown, S. R., Ami, D., Saboda, K., and Harris, R. B., “Factors Associated with Cancer Screening Among Hopi Men.”, J Cancer Educ, 2020. PMID: 33083892
J. K. Cunningham, Ritchey, J., Solomon, T. A., and Cordova, F. M., “Cigarette Use Among American Indians and Alaska Natives in Metropolitan Areas, Rural Areas, and Tribal Lands.”, J Public Health Manag Pract, vol. 25 Suppl 5, Tribal Epidemiology Centers: Advancing Public Health in Indian Country for Over 20 Years, pp. S11-S19, 2019. PMID: 31348186
A. Bliss, Cobb, N., Solomon, T., Cravatt, K., Jim, M. A., Marshall, L. T., and Campbell, J., “Lung cancer incidence among American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States, 1999-2004.”, Cancer, vol. 113, no. 5 Suppl, pp. 1168-78, 2008. PMCID: PMC6800122 PMID: 18720387
P. A. Wingo, King, J., Swan, J., Coughlin, S. S., Kaur, J. S., Erb-Alvarez, J. A., Jackson-Thompson, J., and Solomon, T. G. Arambula, “Breast cancer incidence among American Indian and Alaska Native women: US, 1999-2004.”, Cancer, vol. 113, no. 5 Suppl, pp. 1191-202, 2008. PMID: 18720389