Category: News

CHER welcomes new and current students for fall 2021

ld583 | September 15, 2021

The Center for Community Health and Engaged Research and the Southwest Health Equity Research welcome new and current students to the fall 2021 semester. Read below for more information on them and find out what motivated them to want to earn a degree in public health… Read more

C-CART orientation snapshot

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On August 17, students who were recently accepted into the Culturally Centered Addictions Research Training or C-CART, met with their instructors for the first time. It was a hybrid experience with several of the students and instructors attending virtually… Read more

Williamson promoted to associate professor

ld583 | July 21, 2021

Heather Williamson was promoted to associate professor for Northern Arizona University’s Center for Community Health and Engaged Research and the Department of Occupational Therapy… Read more

Smith awarded Northwest NARCH Tribal Researchers’ Cancer Control Fellowship Program

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Melinda Smith, a doctoral student in Northern Arizona University’s Interdisciplinary Health Program and a researcher at the Center for Community Health and Engaged Research, was recently awarded $30,000 through the Northwest NARCH Tribal Researchers’ Cancer Control Fellowship Program (TRCCFP)… Read more

Spotlight: Amanda Pollitt

ld583 | July 20, 2021

With an extensive background in LGBTQ health equity, Amanda Pollitt adds a new and important specialization focus to the Center for Community Health and Engaged Research’s burgeoning offerings… Read more

Report highlights COVID-19 experiences of community health workers

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Community health workers (CHWs) — also referred to as community health representatives and promotoras de salud — are frontline public health workers who are trusted and welcomed into the homes of their communities… Read more

Funding faculty equipment purchases is a little-known but important SHERC mission

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For many Northern Arizona University researchers, the one thing that prevents them from completing groundbreaking research is the cost of equipment or programs needed to capture their data… Read more

Resilient teamwork: partners adapt summer program during COVID

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When the COVID-19 pandemic closed businesses and eliminated most summer programs in Arizona last year, a team from Diné College and Northern Arizona University’s Center for Community Health and Engaged Research (CHER) quickly pivoted to an online curriculum for Diné students in two longtime summer education programs… Read more

Community health workers improve birthweight of newborns through the Arizona Health Start Program, researchers find

ld583 | June 22, 2021

Through a comprehensive study of the last 10 years, researchers from Northern Arizona University and University of Arizona found that pregnant women and mothers enrolled in Arizona’s Health Start Program, which employs community health workers (CHWs) to conduct home visits, have lower rates of low birthweight and preterm newborns than women who did not participate in Health Start… Read more

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SHERC investigators release resource guide for caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias

ld583 | June 16, 2021

Each year in Arizona, family members spend about 357 million unpaid hours caring for family members with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). Before now, each caregiver in rural northern Arizona had to scramble and search for relevant resources for their loved one, often overlooking their own support and care… Read more