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Read about the amazing things happening at the Center for Community Health and Engaged Research.

Smith awarded Northwest NARCH Tribal Researchers’ Cancer Control Fellowship Program

ld583 | July 21, 2021

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

Native American baby playing with toys from a plastic bucket.

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

Virtual workshop will address chemical toxicants in water and interactions with climate change, June 14–16

ld583 | June 7, 2021

Understanding the connections between water contamination and human health—especially in the context of climate change—is critical to evaluating exposure risk and identifying next steps to eliminating these risks to all people… Read more

Camplain accepted into first cohort INSPIRE research education program

ld583 | May 26, 2021

Carly Camplain, doctoral student in interdisciplinary health and senior research coordinator for the Center for Community Health and Engaged Research, was selected for the first cohort of the newly created INSPIRE: Indigenous Substance Use and Addictions Prevention Interdisciplinary Research Education program… Read more

Conference on May 19 examines the impact of COVID-19 on border health

ld583 | May 13, 2021

The impact of COVID-19 has challenged border communities who were already working to improve their region’s social determinants of health — conditions where people live, learn, work, and play that affect their health and quality of life… Read more