Cal Poly Humboldt's home in Arcata is near many Native American people from several different tribes. The University of California-Davis has a medical school. So the two schools are combining obvious strengths and starting a program to get indigenous students pointed toward, and through, medical school.
The Huwighurruk (a Wiyot word for medicine, pronounced hee-way-gou-duck) Tribal Health Postbaccalaureate Program at CPH is designed to bring in pre-med students, give them culturally appropriate training and science courses, and support them with living and tuition costs. If it all works as planned, the students will emerge from UC-Davis with MDs in hand, ready to work in rural and tribal communities.
We get further details in an interview on the JX.