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Hopi-NAU Collaboration: Piloting the Ööqalat’ Qa’tsit Yesni Health Curriculum

Posted by Beck Thomas on April 2, 2026

Pilot Project, Year 9

Summary of project: 

  • Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is linked to a higher risk of several cancers, including liver, pancreas, colon/rectum, breast, and bladder cancers, yet cancer risk is rarely addressed in diabetes education.
  • Some rural and tribal communities experience high rates of T2D and related health complications, highlighting the need for more education and prevention efforts related to both diabetes and cancer.
  • This study evaluates a community-based… Read more

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Identifying the Psychosocial Impact of Cancer on American Indian Cancer Patients

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Pilot Project, Year 9

Summary of project: 

  • Cancer diagnoses often lead to depression and anxiety, which lowers quality of life and makes it harder for patients to follow complex treatment plans.
  • Long travel distances and multiple medical appointments can make treatment harder to complete, which may contribute to worse health outcomes.
  • The study will create an adapted distress survey for adult cancer patients in a… Read more

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Improving Rocky Mountain spotted fever prevention through molecular epidemiology

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Pilot Project, Year 9

Summary of project: 

  • Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) remains a major public health threat in Arizona tribal communities, where the brown dog tick (BDT) transmits Rickettsia rickettsii to humans.
  • This project examines how BDT movement patterns influence the spread of different Rickettsia strains, with the goal of improving tick-control strategies.
  • By studying tick… Read more

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Enhancing Health in Rural Populations: Music as Therapy

Posted by Beck Thomas on

Pilot Project, Year 9

Summary of project: 

  • Music-based interventions (MBIs) have shown benefits for mental health and cognitive functioning, but their use among individuals with memory loss or chronic health challenges is understudied.
  • This project will adapt an existing MBI curriculum for adults in Northern Arizona and evaluate its effects through a quasi-experimental design with pre/post measures and interviews.
  • The intervention uses group music sessions… Read more

Filed Under: PPP

Pilot Project Program supports new teams for 2026

Posted by Beck Thomas on March 27, 2026

Accordion Closed

About the Investigator Development Core Pilot Project Program (PPP)

The SHERC Investigator Development Core Pilot Project Program (PPP) is designed to support early-stage investigators at NAU working in basic biomedical, clinical or behavioral health research. Projects supported under the PPP are provided with 2 years of funding to conduct a pilot project, with the purpose of generating data that strengthens competitiveness for NIH and other external funding opportunities. The project leads also take part… Read more

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SHERC Community Partnership and Pilot Project Forum Registration

Posted by Beck Thomas on March 6, 2026

SHERC… Read more

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EGAnet Workshop Presenter

Posted by Beck Thomas on October 17, 2025

Heidi A Wayment, Ph.D.

Regents’ Professor, Psychological Sciences
Affiliate Faculty Interdisciplinary Health Ph.D. program
Member SHERC executive committee

Heidi A. Wayment, PhD earned her PhD in social psychology at UCLA, with emphases in health psychology and quantitative methods and recently earned an M.Sc. in Applied Data Science and Measurement from the University of Mannheim Business School. A successful teacher and scholar, she is a Fellow… Read more

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Public Health Data Workshop Presenters

Posted by Beck Thomas on October 7, 2025

Modernization Efforts to Improve Data Accessibility and Analyses with the Arizona Department of Health Services 

About the presenters

 

Matt Roach, MPH

A headshot of Matt RoachMatt Roach is the Vital Statistics Manager at the Arizona Department… Read more

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The fall application period is open for the Community Campus Partnership Support Program!

Posted by Beck Thomas on August 28, 2025

three women smiling in a public setting.

Missed the application period in the spring? SHERC is offering an accelerated version of the CCPS program and is now accepting applications for the Community Campus Partnership Support (CCPS) Program.

CCPS funds partnership building activities between NAU investigators and community partners with the goal of sparking collaborative health disparity research ideas. Participating partners will:

    … Read more

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Powering Big Data for Bigger Discoveries

Posted by Beck Thomas on May 15, 2025

A computer port hub

SHERC-Funded Server Room Renovation Expands NAU’s Data Science Capacity

Northern Arizona University’s (NAU) capacity for data-driven research just got a major upgrade, thanks to a high-impact renovation project led by the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative’s (SHERC) Research Capacity Core (RCC). In effort to support researchers working with large and complex data sets, the RCC funded a comprehensive upgrade of NAU’s central server room. This critical infrastructure investment of nearly $500,000 will directly advance health research conducted by NAU.

The renovation,… Read more

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