Sarah Mcnally, MPH

Sarah McNally (Tongan, Rotuman, Tuvaluan) is a Ph.D. student in the Health Services Organization and Policy (HSOP) program at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and a Graduate Research Assistant with the Native Nourishment Network. Sarah has been actively involved in research across academic and community-based, nonprofit settings. Sarah has had the privilege of working with and learning from Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) and urban Native communities on topics of self-determination, data decolonization, and Indigenous data sovereignty. This work has largely informed her research interests, which currently center on identifying and understanding the impacts of systemic barriers, particularly those imposed and sustained by policy, on NHPI communities.