Category: News

Indrakshi Roy named NAU assistant research professor

ld583 | January 12, 2023

Congratulations to Indrakshi Roy who was recently named an assistant research professor for the Northern Arizona University Department of Health Sciences and for the Center for Community Health and Engaged Research (CHER). Roy’s professional interests are in gerontology, health disparities, health services research, health economics, health policy implications and healthy aging. She has been at CHER for three years as a biostatistician… Read more

Is rapid online ethnography effective in studying telehealth during the pandemic for people who use drugs? Researchers say yes and no

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When the COVID-19 pandemic began in January 2020, many health providers of people who use drugs shifted patient visits online as the U.S. adjusted its medical policies to accommodate a virtual environment… Read more

Navajo undergraduate students successful in educating community on COVID-19

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A group of researchers from Northern Arizona University and Diné College found that employing public health students to deliver COVID-19 information to their own community is an effective way to address residents’ vaccine concerns and hesitancy… Read more

Improving life for new parents

ld583 | January 11, 2023

When Native Americans for Community Action (NACA) received a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in October 2019, they decided to use part of it to increase breastfeeding awareness in the Flagstaff community—an important yet often overlooked necessity for parents… Read more

Building a healthy Navajo Nation

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In an unprecedented move eight years ago, the Navajo Nation created the first-ever tax in the U.S. that supports health promotion and disease prevention through a law that collects a 2 percent tax on foods with little to no nutritional value and removes the 5 percent tax on fruits, vegetables and water… Read more

Restoring biocrusts to fight valley fever

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When it comes to reducing the cases of Valley fever, one of the solutions may lie in the biocrust. Or, more precisely, the wind not blowing the biocrust… Read more

CHER staff spotlight: Carmenlita Chief

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When Carmenlita Chief is involved in a research project, you can be sure that it will involve listening and connecting to the community in all aspects of the work—from the initial community consultation, throughout the evaluative research study and especially in reporting the findings back to them… Read more

NAU and international group examine human rights across the americas

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Representatives from six Latin American countries met with more than 30 people from Northern Arizona University on December 5 for a daylong event at the university to examine human rights issues and challenges they are facing in their countries… Read more

$4 million award funds new Center for Native American Cancer Health Equity

ld583 | November 10, 2022

Improving cancer screening rates among Native Americans, increasing education about tribe-specific cancer trends, and addressing disproportionately high exposure to carcinogenic environmental contaminants are just a few aims of the newly funded Center for Native American Cancer Health Equity (C-NACHE)… Read more

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Arizona moves toward reimbursing community health workers through Medicaid

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Community health workers (CHWs), community health representatives (CHR) and promotores de salud are the pulse of the people—they are the trusted link between community members and health and social systems… Read more