Category: News

CHER associate director’s $4M C-NACHE project featured on PBS

ld583 | March 27, 2023

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ABRC workshop explores developing a diverse rural healthcare workforce

ld583 | March 9, 2023

On February 18, about 75 people from across Arizona, Texas, and throughout the nation gathered both online and at the NAU Phoenix Bioscience Core to discuss how to recruit, retain, and graduate a diverse healthcare workforce who will serve in underserved and rural communities, including reservations and border regions as part of the Arizona Biomedical Research Centre (ABRC) Workshop Series… Read more

SHERC’s Community Expert Board

ld583 | March 8, 2023

For the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC), having an active group of collaborative, statewide leaders as part of their team is an integral ingredient to the initiative’s successful Community Expert Board… Read more

Supporting community health workers (CHWs) with resources and training

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The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of community health workers (CHWs)—including Hispanic/Latinx promotores de salud and Indigenous community health representatives (CHRs)—in getting valuable and trusted scientific information to community members, preventing COVID-19 spread, and linking individuals to essential health and social services and resources… Read more

Community partner highlight: the Crow Tribe

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In a collaborative study with the Crow Tribe in Montana, researchers from the Northern Arizona University Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative hope to improve the early detection of dementia in American Indians and Alaska Natives, an important step toward enhancing preventive care in this vulnerable population… Read more

ABRC workshop examines health messaging and COVID-19 with top T-Gen leader, ASU journalists, Navajo Nation past president

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Through a one-day, in-person seminar, Arizona’s top journalists, health science professors, a T-Gen scientist, the Navajo Nation president and an Arizona congress member will examine how health messaging from the media and others influenced the COVID-19 pandemic response in the areas of public health, genomic science, policy and media… Read more

Working together

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How can you build a stronger Navajo Nation chapter post-pandemic… Read more

People sitting in chairs at Forest Lake chapter house.

CDC Awards $6 million to Arizona Tribal Community Health Representative Program

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Student Spotlight: Melinda Smith

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When Melinda Smith was in grade school, she found a supportive mentor in her great-aunt Willie—a retired high school teacher of 25+ years in the Arlee Public School system in Montana—whose example of strength and wisdom changed the trajectory of the young girl’s life… Read more