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In the Media: Katherine GeeBah Footracer ’92 Featured in Health Magazine for COVID-19 Work with the Navajo Nation

Katherine GeeBah Footracer ’92, a certified physician’s assistant, was in Health magazine for her work with Navajo COVID-19 patients in Kayenta, part of the Navajo Nation. Footracer, who is also Navajo, left Los Angeles in March to volunteer with the Indian Health Service. “I don’t have a strong connection to Navajo culture, [but] I started reading more about the Navajo reservation and how the COVID pandemic was devastating it and I felt called to help,” she told Health. Noting that the pandemic has exacerbated extreme health disparities in the United States, she added that she hopes that post-pandemic life will bring about “a new normal, a better normal, that’s more just and equitable for all of us.”

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