The Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative’s (SHERC) Community Engagement Core has opened the seventh 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 October 15 at 5 p.m. Since July 2018, CCPS has funded 16 partnerships through bi-annual competitive… Read more
According to a study by the Pew Research Center, about half of lower-income Americans report household job or wage loss due to COVID-19. Many partner organizations of the Center for Community Health and Engaged Research (CHER) are feeling the pandemic.
Heather Williamson, assistant professor for CHER and the Department of Occupational Therapy, said that people living with disabilities face many challenges associated with COVID-19.
“Students with disabilities and their families are facing challenges… Read more
Join Health Justice Futures in a online conversation with indigenous visual artists, Liva’ndrea Knoki and Garrett Etsitty, who will discuss the beauty of art in mobilizing indigenous communities, the power of visibility, and what health justice means in the context of indigenous sovereignty, gender, housing and settler colonialism.
This event is part of bi-monthly virtual evening art & lit mixers. This series seeks to elevate community-grounded conversations on the various factors that influence health justice and fairness for communities in… Read more
Learn more about Community health workers’ positive impact on the Arizona Health Start program and other stories from our center in the July 2021 newsletter:
CHER/SHERC newsletter July 2021
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.
For the past five years, NAU’s Southwest Health Equity… Read more
Nicolette Teufel-Shone, associate director of the Center for Community Health and Engaged Research and co-lead for the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative, recently collaborated with researchers from 18 of the 25 Research Centers for Minority Institutions (RCMI) in the US to publish Community Engagement Practices at Research Institutions: Priority Populations… Read more
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… Read more
Northern Arizona University’s Department of Sustainable Communities has been inspiring and training students to make a difference in Flagstaff and throughout Arizona in sustainability, civic engagement, interdisciplinary research and social justice work for more than 20 years.
Peter Friederici, director of Sustainable Communities… Read more
Learn more about CHER’s new culturally centered graduate certificate for health professionals and other stories from our center in the April 2021 newsletter:
Ricky Camplain and Olivia Lindly both received the Northern Arizona University Researcher of the Year for Health Sciences, and Brettania O’Connor was named Innovator of the Year at the recommendation of the Honors and Scholarship committee.
Camplain is an assistant professor in Northern Arizona University’s Department of Health Sciences and epidemiologist at the Read more