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Read about the amazing things happening at the Center for Health Equity Research.

Student Spotlight: Shaylynne Shuler

ld583 | April 7, 2022

Having grown up in a highly religious and conservative area, Shaylynne Shuler witnessed LGBTQ people around her struggling with mental health, suicidality, and homelessness due to religiously-based parental and familial rejection… Read more

C-CART scholars, faculty and community partners meet for first conference

ld583 | April 6, 2022

Scholars, faculty and community partners in the Culturally Centered Addictions Research Training (C-CART) attended their first C-CART Conference on April 1 and 2. The event was held at NAU’s Native American Cultural Center on the first day… Read more

North Country HealthCare serves underrepresented people throughout COVID-19 and beyond

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When COVID-19 first began spreading in Arizona communities, North Country HealthCare (NCHC) was ready… Read more

Community partnership leads to successful study on the effects of environmental toxicants in Yuma farmworkers

ld583 | February 16, 2022

Exposure to environmental toxicants is a crucial health equity issue for the approximately 30,000 farmworkers from Yuma and nearby Mexico who work on farmland in the county, which totals around 230,000 acres… Read more

Bordeaux awarded twice as Distinguished Graduate Student

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Skyler Bordeaux, a 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… Read more

Staff spotlight: Indrakshi Roy

ld583 | February 15, 2022

Why is the field of biostatistics important to health equity? Indrakshi Roy, PhD, biostatistician for the Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) and the Southwest Health Equity Collaborative (SHERC), believes that with the advancement of various technologies, analysis of data is becoming the cornerstone for policy decisions and for addressing health disparities or achieving equity… Read more

Fairness First podcast hosts deliver first ‘Health Equity Chitchat’

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McGarrity-Yoder and Rodriguez-Pla receive funding to enhance partnership

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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 this area of research… Read more

Researchers publish Health Start Program Evaluation Impact Report for AZ Dept. of Health Services

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For Keri Morrill, working as a community health worker (CHW) at North Country HealthCare for the Arizona Health Start Program in Flagstaff for the past 11 years has been much more than a standard, 40-hour-a-week job… Read more

2021 Research Poster Presentation and Reception

ld583 | January 12, 2022

For the first time since 2019, the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC) 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… Read more