Maureen McGarrity-Yoder and her community partner, Alicia Rodriguez Pla, received $5,000 in funding from the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative’s (SHERC) Community-Campus Partnership Support (CCPS) for developing their partnership for collaborative work addressing rheumatoid arthritis (RA), associations with nutrition, microbiome health and function, and disease activity, especially in people who are underrepresented in… Read more
The founders and co-hosts of the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative’s Fairness First podcast, Carmenlita Chief and Alexandra Samarron Longorio, are venturing into a new podcast format called “Health Equity Chitchat.”
In the span of about 30 minutes, the co-hosts discuss and unpack a critical scholarly publication produced by people identifying as queer or women of color, while also highlighting how the scholarship and knowledge can be applied to… Read more
Learn more about Jason Ladner’s Pilot Project Program and other stories featured in our January 2022 CHER/SHERC newsletter.
The Center for Community Health and Engaged Research (CHER) and the Southwest Health Equity Research Center (SHERC ) Research Infrastructure Core recently created a Technical Assistance Group (TAG) Service Center to assist Northern Arizona University faculty and staff with their research questions.
The TAG Service Center… Read more
Funding for a Pilot Project Program through Northern Arizona University’s Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC) allowed Jason Ladner, assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, to develop a unique “technological toolbox” that can identify and characterize antibodies against many different viruses simultaneously rather than only one at… Read more
December 30, 2021
Carmenlita Chief, M.P.H., and Alexandra Samarron Longorio, RDN, have devoted their careers to ensuring that every person, especially those from the most underrepresented and… Read more
For the first time since 2019, the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative displayed more than 15 pilot projects, research projects and supplements at their socially distanced, but still lively, Research Poster Presentation and Reception on Dec. 8 at the High Country Conference Center.
Northern Arizona University President José… Read more
Published November 24, 2021
Meet Dr. Julie Baldwin, a Regents’ Professor in the Department of Health Sciences and the Director of the Center for Community Health and Engaged Research at Northern Arizona University.
[button… Read moreLearn more about Northern Arizona University’s Master of Public Health, Indigenous Track program and other stories featured in our November 2021 CHER/SHERC newsletter.
Amanda Hunter’s commitment to Indigenous health equity, specifically for youth and young adults, is shaping her prolific work as the Center for Community Health and Engaged Research (CHER) postdoctoral scholar.
Her interest in developing Indigenous health equity started almost 10 years ago. After earning her bachelor’s degree in physiology, Amanda Urbina,… Read more