More than 6 million individuals in the U.S. live with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD), which is projected to increase to more than 15 million by 2060.
Approximately 35% of American Indians and Alaska Natives… Read more
For the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC), having an active group of collaborative, statewide leaders as part of their team is an integral ingredient to the initiative’s successful Community Expert Board.
SHERC assembled a broad spectrum of geographically diverse, multisectoral… Read more
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.
Chief, who holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Arizona, is a senior research coordinator with the Center for Community… Read more
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.
Valley fever, or coccidioidomycosis, is a fungal disease caused by inhaling spores that live… Read more
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.
Funding from the tax,… Read more
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 ingerontology, health disparities, health services research, health economics, health policy implications and healthy aging. She has been at CHER for three years as a biostatistician.
“I feel fortunate to be working as an assistant… Read more
Regents’ professor Julie Baldwin, founding director of Northern Arizona University’s Center for Community Health and Engaged Research, was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Medicine (NAM) for her pioneering research on community-driven HIV/AIDS and substance use prevention interventions for Indigenous youth implemented in school systems and Native communities in the U.S. and globally.
NAM is considered one of the highest honors in the… Read more
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