News

What began as an innovative, ambitious project more than five years ago, the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative has now grown into a strong, effective team of faculty, staff, students and community organizations—all working together with a singular purpose—to increase basic biomedical, clinical, and behavioral research at NAU to address health disparities among diverse populations of the southwestern United States.

Under the leadership of Regents’ Professor Julie Baldwin, director of NAU’s Center for Community Health and Engaged Research (CHER), SHERC… Read more

Investing in innovative research by early-stage investigators is an invaluable contribution of the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC).

SHERC will fund three major research projects, led by researchers Ricky Camplain, Emily Cope and Joseph Mihaljevic, that will improve health equity for people who are most underrepresented.

The projects are Camplain’s “Gender Differences in Physical Activity Opportunities… Read more

If you’ve been following the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative, you may know the center offers mentorship opportunities, health equity project funding, community networking opportunities and countless workshops on everything from manuscript writing to learning power analysis.

How can you join SHERC’s work or advance your career path to include health equity?

Following… Read more

Behind every effective health equity research center is a strong advisory committee. To form an effective advisory team, Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC) leaders brought together experts from across the country to assist the center in reaching its specific aims, milestones and evaluation benchmarks during the next five years.

The… Read more

Check out the CHER/SHERC’s  September 2022 newsletter.

Includes features on:

• More resources are needed to assist detention center officers, according to study
• Project addresses H. pylori on Navajo Nation
• Collaboration is key to ending oral health inequities
• Researchers receive conference funding
• TAG offers publications assistance
• Student Spotlight: Jeffersson Brasil Pires Dos Santos
• C-CART welcomes new scholars
• CHER and SHERC… Read more

In the latest Fairness First “Health Equity Voices” podcast, Deborah Harris told host Alexandra Samarron Longorio that a friend had given her a pendant engraved with, “For such a time as this.” 

That inscription aptly defines the community advocate’s work promoting equity and inclusion for all in Flagstaff, especially for those who are underrepresented, through her work as executive… Read more

One of the keys to successful research is having an opportunity to present your work at conferences and other important meetings to disseminate your results.

The Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative’s Community-Campus Dissemination Support funded six Northern Arizona University researchers with up to $2,000 each to travel to a conference or meeting to present the outcomes from their SHERC-funded… Read more

*Dos Santos uses the pronouns they/them/their

Jeffersson… Read more