Founder, Encoded 4 Story
Nurse Midwife/Researcher/Consultant
Santa Rosa, CA
Janelle Palacios PhD, CNM (Séliš & Ktunaxa) is a practicing nurse midwife, researcher, policy shifter, associate professor, public speaker & storyteller originally from the Flathead Indian Reservation. With both lived experience, clinical and research expertise, Dr. Palacios is a nationally recognized Indigenous maternal/child expert, and completed a national appointment on HRSA’s Advisory Committee on Infant and Maternal Mortality where she co-authored the first national report from this advisory entitled, Making Amends: Recommended Strategies & Actions to Improve the Health and Safety of American Indian and Alaska Native Mothers and Infants. Dr. Palacios is founder of Encoded 4 Story, a consulting agency aimed at addressing and improving maternal, infant, child and family health by weaving storytelling in public speaking, research, training, and policy shifting. Dr. Palacios has consulted on a wide range of rural, tribal and maternal/child health topics such as the CDC's Hear Her Campaign within American Indian communities, and Tribally led Maternal Mortality Review Committees. She has assisted AMCHP in developing online training modules based upon deconstructing racism in data. With over 20 years of experience working with story, she is also a trained digital story facilitator, and has employed her skills for story-making with the National Center for Fatality Review and Prevention and the Healthy Start TA Center. Her research has included qualitative methods sharing American Indian women's stories of being teen mothers, while her work on access to prenatal care and delivery site have included the intersections of rurality, race/ethnicity, complex risk factors and social-community indices among American Indian/Alaska Native birthing people. She is a practicing nurse midwife in Oakland, CA where she teaches OB/GYN residents and is Chair of the Supporting Vaginal Birth Workgroup at her workplace.
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