Danya Carroll

Biography

Dr. Danya Carroll, PhD, MPH, is Diné and White Mountain Apache from her Peoples’ traditional territories in the southwestern US. She graduated from the UND Indigenous Health PhD program in 2023 with the first cohort of graduates. Dr. Carroll has worked in various capacities within the Tribal, nonprofit and research sectors in the US. Her public health work has evolved around building culturally driven Land-based models and practices that promote healthy Indigenous food systems, community health and wellbeing. She has led programming for Indigenous youth and families including school gardening and nutrition programs such as the Healthy Navajo Stores Initiative and Fruit & Vegetable Prescription (FVRx) programs. She has vast experience in program evaluation and grant development & implementation with Indigenous communities. Currently, Dr. Carroll is a Postdoctoral Associate at Western University in Ontario, Canada where her research focuses on supporting the protection and mobilization of Indigenous traditional ecological health knowledges in Canada and the US.