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About Dr. Myrna Kay Cunningham Kain
Myrna Cunningham Kain, is a Medical Doctor and works as a Public Health Practitioner with the Miskitu indigenous population on the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua. She is committed to the development of indigenous peoples and has pressed for their autonomy on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua.
Dr. Cunningham Kain is a human rights activist and served as the Chair of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the UN, as well as advisor to the President of the UN General Assembly during the World Conference of Indigenous Peoples at the UN in 2014. She has been collaborating with PAHO / WHO on issues related to the health of indigenous peoples over the last 25 years.
She has been the Coordinator of the Itinerant Indigenous Chair (CII) since 2005, composed of 60 indigenous wise men / women from 18 countries in Latin America, which is a course that is part of the curricular offer of the postgraduate courses offered by the UII in 25 Associated Academic Centers, designed to provide information, analysis, conceptual and methodological contributions to knowledge, spirituality, world view, rights and processes of struggle of indigenous peoples.
She currently serves as the President of the Fund for the Development of Indigenous Peoples of Latin America and the CARIBBEAN- FILAC and Chairperson of the Center for Autonomy and Development of Indigenous People (CADPI).