She is a member of the Navajo Nation and a Robert Wood Johnson Center for Health Policy Postdoctoral Fellow and has worked on several National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funded research projects with American Indian communities in the Southwest. Currently, Dr. Belone is principal investigator of an intergenerational family prevention program and a coinvestigator to a national study to better understand CBPR projects in American Indian and Alaska Native and other communities facing health disparities.