Learn more about Jason Ladner’s Pilot Project Program and other stories featured in our January 2022 CHER/SHERC newsletter.
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Technical Assistance Group Service Center opens
Steps to submit a TAG request form
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
Ladner develops method to detect complete history of viral exposures with a single test
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
NIMHD news features SHERC’s Fairness First Campaign
Northern Arizona University’s Fairness First Campaign: Promoting Community Health Equity
Bringing community organizations and researchers together through discussions, experiential learning, and social mixers
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
2021 Research Poster Presentation and Reception
SHERC holds successful event featuring current projects
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
NIH features Regents’ Professor Julie A. Baldwin, CHER Director
Conversation with Julie A. Baldwin, Ph.D., Northern Arizona University
Applying Cross-Cutting Themes of Prevention Science and Community-Based, Participatory Research to Address Health Disparities
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.
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Learn 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: Investing in Indigenous Youth through Native Spirit
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
Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative investigators work to end the HIV epidemic in rural Oklahoma
Since her doctoral work more than 31 years ago, Northern Arizona University Regents’ Professor Julie A. Baldwin has been working to prevent human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, in a unique way—through community-engaged, culturally centered interventions based on the specific needs in each community.
Baldwin, director of the Center for Community Health and Engaged Research… Read more
CCPS opens eighth round of funding
The Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative’s (SHERC) Community Engagement Core has opened the eighth round of its Community-Campus Partnership Support (CCPS) applications.
CCPS funding is dedicated to developing relationships between NAU faculty, from all disciplines that can contribute to health equity, and their community partners.
Applications are due by December 13 at 5 p.m. Since July 2018, CCPS has funded 16 partnerships through bi-annual competitive application rounds totaling… Read more