For the first time since 2019, the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative displayed more than 15 pilot projects, research projects and supplements at their socially distanced, but still lively, Research Poster Presentation and Reception on Dec. 8 at the High Country Conference Center.
Northern Arizona University President José… Read more
Published November 24, 2021
Meet Dr. Julie Baldwin, a Regents’ Professor in the Department of Health Sciences and the Director of the Center for Community Health and Engaged Research at Northern Arizona University.
[button… Read moreLearn more about Northern Arizona University’s Master of Public Health, Indigenous Track program and other stories featured in our November 2021 CHER/SHERC newsletter.
Amanda Hunter’s commitment to Indigenous health equity, specifically for youth and young adults, is shaping her prolific work as the Center for Community Health and Engaged Research (CHER) postdoctoral scholar.
Her interest in developing Indigenous health equity started almost 10 years ago. After earning her bachelor’s degree in physiology, Amanda Urbina,… Read more
Since her doctoral work more than 31 years ago, Northern Arizona University Regents’ Professor Julie A. Baldwin has been working to prevent human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, in a unique way—through community-engaged, culturally centered interventions based on the specific needs in each community.
Baldwin, director of the Center for Community Health and Engaged Research… Read more
The Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative’s (SHERC) Community Engagement Core has opened the eighth round of its Community-Campus Partnership Support (CCPS) applications.
CCPS funding is dedicated to developing relationships between NAU faculty, from all disciplines that can contribute to health equity, and their community partners.
Applications are due by December 13 at 5 p.m. Since July 2018, CCPS has funded 16 partnerships through bi-annual competitive application rounds totaling… Read more
Carmenlita Chief and Alexandra Samarron Longorio have devoted their careers to ensuring that every person, especially the most underrepresented and underserved, has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible.
It was this commitment to health equity that sparked the senior research coordinators at the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative’s Community Engagement Core to create their recently released Fairness First Campaign.
Through… Read more
Learn more about Northern Arizona University’s Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative Fairness First Initiative and other stories featured in our October 2021 CHER/SHERC newsletter.
Q. Can you tell us more about the research you do around wildfire and social science?A. I research how human communities can become “fire adapted” (i.e., live with fire while minimizing impacts and losses) before, during, and after wildfires.… Read more
PHOENIX—After a rainy July, the McDowell Sonoran Preserve in Scottsdale is unusually green with a mix of Sonoran Desert plants and invasive annual grasses that have suddenly sprung to life. The intense… Read more