When COVID-19 first began spreading in Arizona communities, North Country HealthCare (NCHC) was ready.
The healthcare center was one of the stellar organizations that quickly responded to the crisis and assisted in guiding people to health and safety, and they have continued their much-needed care throughout the long pandemic.
“NCHC is an extremely valuable health resource in northern Arizona, providing accessible and culturally competent care to diverse communities… Read more
Successfully guiding Diné youth toward health and public health professions begins with two important ideas––start students in a program in high school and cultivate in them a love and understanding of their own cultural, strength-based assets.
Researchers from Diné College and Northern Arizona University explored these findings and other lessons in their recently released publication, “Engaging Native American High School Students in Public Health Career Preparation Through the Indigenous Summer… Read more
Grant D. Crawford, Tahlequah Daily Press, Okla.
March 3, 2022
While health officials have worked to reduce HIV transmission throughout the country, some areas of the U.S. are still impacted more than… Read more
Learn more about the importance of our community partner collaborations to address the effects of chemical toxicants on Yuma farmworkers and other stories featured in our February 2022 CHER/SHERC newsletter.
Bridget Barker is a research-intensive associate professor in NAU’s Department of Biological Sciences. Her research focus is the ecology/genomics of human pathogens Coccidioides immitis and C. posadasii.
A. I study a fungus that causes a disease- the fungus is actually 2 species: Coccidioides immitis and Coccidioides posadasii. The disease is Coccidioidomycosis, but we use the common name:… Read more
Why is the field of biostatistics important to health equity? Indrakshi Roy, PhD, biostatistician for the Center for Community Health and Engaged Research (CHER) and the Southwest Health Equity Collaborative (SHERC), believes that with the advancement of various technologies, analysis of data is becoming the cornerstone… Read more
Skyler Bordeaux, student in the Northern Arizona University’s Master of Public Health-Health Promotion Program, was recently awarded the Distinguished Graduate Student for both the Department of Health Sciences and the MPH–Indigenous Health program.
“The news of the awards literally took my breath away as I read the award email,” he said. “I… Read more
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.
