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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
Is rapid online ethnography effective in studying telehealth during the pandemic for people who use drugs? Researchers say yes and no
Read moreIndrakshi Roy named NAU assistant research professor
Congratulations to Indrakshi Roy who was recently named an assistant research professor for the Northern Arizona University Department of Health Sciences and for the Center for Community Health and Engaged Research (CHER). Roy’s professional interests are ingerontology, health disparities, health services research, health economics, health policy implications and healthy aging. She has been at CHER for three years as a biostatistician.
“I feel fortunate to be working as an assistant… Read more
Regents’ professor Julie Baldwin elected to the National Academy of Medicine
Regents’ professor Julie Baldwin, founding director of Northern Arizona University’s Center for Community Health and Engaged Research, was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Medicine (NAM) for her pioneering research on community-driven HIV/AIDS and substance use prevention interventions for Indigenous youth implemented in school systems and Native communities in the U.S. and globally.
NAM is considered one of the highest honors in the… Read more
CHER/SHERC October 2022 News
Check out the CHER/SHERC’s October 2022 news
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NAU research collaborative receives $21M grant to continue pioneering work into health equity in the Southwest
(Feature from the NAU Review by Heidi Toth)
A groundbreaking research collaborative at Northern Arizona University received another $21 million grant to continue its work to promote health equity and study health disparities among diverse populations of the American Southwest.
The Center for Community Health and Engaged Research (CHER) received a $21 million, five-year grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities of the National Institutes of Health… Read more
SHERC: 5 years of growth, synergy and collaboration
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