Family acceptance is a crucial component of healthy development during adolescence,… Read more
Sexual and gender minority youth who inform families are more accepted, but at varying degrees
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Read moreCommunity partner highlight: the Crow Tribe
Building better opportunities for American Indian/Alaska Natives with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias
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
March 2023 CHER/SHERC newsletter available
Check out the CHER/SHERC March 2023 newsletter.
Includes features on:
- CDC awards $6 million to Arizona Tribal Community Health Representative Programs
- Forest Lake: MPH program partners with Navajo community through service-learning
- Student Spotlight: Melinda Smith
- Community partner highlight: The Crow Tribe
- CEAL team assists CHWs during pandemic
- ABRC workshop explores developing a diverse rural healthcare… Read more
SHER’s Community Expert Board
Bringing leaders from across Arizona to assist with health equity research, mentoring and expertise
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
January 2023 CHER/SHERC news
Includes features on:
CHER staff spotlight: Carmenlita Chief
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
Restoring biocrusts to fight Valley fever
Antoninka, Barker and Rowe use PPP funding to prevent disease by healing soil
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
Building a healthy Navajo Nation
Healthy Diné Nation Act proves tribal sovereign nations can drive their own health policy
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
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