Congratulations to Amit Kumar for recent coverage on KJZZ radio station in Phoenix on his medicare claims data study. Kumar, an assistant professor in the Department of Physical Therapy, recently published “Social and Health-Related Factors Associated with Enrollment in Medicare Advantage Plans in Older Adults” in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Co-investigators are Maricruz Rivera-Hernandez, Amol M.… Read more
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Research Poster Presentation event is Dec. 4
The Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC) is hosting a Research Poster Presentation and Reception on December 4, 2019, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the 1899 Ballroom at the 1899 Bar and Grill. To register, visit the Research Poster Presentation and Reception events page.
The event will highlight 16 SHERC researchers who will present posters showcasing their important work… Read more
SHERC receives grant for Alzheimer’s family caregivers study
Family caregivers provide the bulk of care to individuals with Alzheimer’s and similar conditions. These intense responsibilities cause many caregivers to experience high rates of chronic stress, anxiety, depression, and physical health conditions. The symptoms intensify for caregivers of diverse and rural backgrounds who have fewer means to access health and support resources, according to past research.
A multi-disciplinary research team with the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative received… Read more
Fairness First podcast now available
What is health equity, anyway? Researchers from Northern Arizona University’s Center for Community Health and Engaged Research (CHER) are helping listeners to find out through a new podcast series “Fairness First.”
The podcast is part of the Community Engagement Core (CEC) of the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC), which is a grant initiative under CHER. One of the objectives… Read more
Technology That Speeds Healing and Prevents Infection Invented
August 14, 2019
The American population is aging, and conditions such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease are on the rise. With those factors in place, the medical community has growing concerns about wound treatment. According to the American Professional Wound Care Association, about 15 percent of Medicare recipients suffer chronic, non-healing wounds with an annual cost of about $30 billion. Andy Koppisch, Robert Keller and Nate Nieto.
One challenge physicians repeatedly face in treating wounds is the threat of bacterial infection.… Read more
Study on extending insulin’s shelf life may have dramatic implications for health care—on Earth and in space
July 16, 2019
Insulin, a medication used to treat diabetes, is temperature-sensitive and has a short shelf life. It can be stored unopened for up to a year, but once opened, it must be used within weeks or even days. Because insulin is composed of proteins suspended in a water-based solution that facilitates its delivery and preservation, if it isn’t refrigerated or used shortly after opening, those proteins can break down and become… Read more
Featured Faculty: Dr. Julie Baldwin
Dr. Julie Baldwin is the Director of the Center for Community Health and Engaged Research and a Professor of Health Sciences at Northern Arizona University. Dr. Baldwin earned her doctorate in Behavioral Sciences and Health Education in 1991 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. From 1994-2004, she served as a tenured faculty member at Northern Arizona University, with a joint appointment in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman Arizona College of Public Health.… Read more
CCPS Spotlight: Round 1 Awardees (Part I)
Author:
Carmenlita Chief
Program Coordinator, Senior
Community Engagement Core
Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative
Community-Campus Partnership Support Spotlight: Round 1 Awardees
Highlighting two Community-Campus Partnership Support awardees for 2018
Earlier this year, the SHERC Community Engagement Core (CEC) established a funding mechanism called “Community-Campus Partnership Support,” or CCPS, which provides potential community and academic partners up to $5,000 per year to develop a partnership without the pressure of project outcomes or grant application deadlines. CCPS funds allow partners to meet face-to face at… Read more
Equipment Spotlight – ACEA xCELLigence System
Co-Authors:
Christine Kirby
Program Coordinator
Research Infrastructure Core
Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative
Archana Varadaraj
Assistant Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Equipment Spotlight: ACEA xCELLigence System
Continuously monitor live cell proliferation, morphology and viability with label free assays
I sat down with Dr. Archana Varadaraj, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, to better understand the recently SHERC (Research Infrastructure Core) purchased xCELLigence Real Time Cell Analysis Instrument. Feeling a bit overwhelmed to digest the terminology I knew was bound to… Read more
Helping Diabetics Heal
Robert Kellar, PhD
Associate Professor of Practice Department of Biological Sciences
Catherine Propper, PhD
Professor ‑ Department of Biological Sciences
Helping Diabetics Heal
Roughly one in six Native American adults has diabetes, a higher percentage than any other racial group in the United States.
Many Native Americans also live on land where the water is contaminated with arsenic, which can prevent chronic diabetic wounds from healing.
For people with diabetes, a small cut or wound on the foot can be a big problem.… Read more