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Bordeaux awarded twice as Distinguished Graduate Student

ld583 | February 16, 2022

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

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

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

Student Spotlight: Amy Gelatt

ld583 | January 10, 2022

Shortly after Northern Arizona University’s Center for Health Equity Research began in 2017, one of the first members of the spartan administration team was Amy Gelatt… Read more

Invaluable Partnership

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Northern Arizona University’s Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) recently received a $100,000, one-year supplemental grant to collaborate with Native Americans for Community Action, Inc. (NACA) as part of the Culturally-Centered Addictions Research Training, or C-CART program… Read more

Ladner develops method to detect complete history of viral exposures with a single test

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Funding for a Pilot Project Program through Northern Arizona University’s Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC) allowed Jason Ladner, assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, to develop a unique “technological toolbox” that can identify and characterize antibodies against many different viruses simultaneously rather than only one at a time… Read more