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CHER welcomes new C-CART scholars

ld583 | September 6, 2022

The Culturally Centered Addictions Research Training (C-CART) program welcomes its second cohort of nine scholars. The purpose of the C-CART is to educate clinicians, providers, and doctoral students in health professions in research skills that include culturally-centered practices, related to substance use and substance use disorders which can be applied in interprofessional practice and diverse settings… Read more

CHER and SHERC welcome new and current students for fall 2022

ld583 | September 5, 2022

The Center for Health Equity Research and the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative welcome new and current students to the fall 2022 semester. Read below for more information on them and find out what motivated them to want to earn a degree in public health… Read more

Expanding Native Spirit

ld583 | July 13, 2022

For Amanda Hunter, an Indigenous scholar from the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, empowering American Indian teens to embrace their cultural values and practices has been her mission as a graduate student and now as a postdoctoral scholar for the Center for Health Equity Research (CHER)… Read more

Making a difference for good

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In their Cancer Biochemistry and Immunology Labs dedicated to cancer research, Archana Varadaraj and Narendiran Rajasekaran are discovering and developing new, innovative therapies to cure treatment-resistant cancers, especially breast, renal and colorectal cancers… Read more
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Incarceration and COVID-19

ld583 | July 11, 2022

The Center for Health Equity Research (CHER), in collaboration with the Arizona Biomedical Research Centre (ABRC) and The Covid Prison Project held a Incarceration and COVID-19 workshop. This workshop was hosted by Ricky Camplain, PhD, Assistant Professor, NAU Health Sciences, Epidemiologist at the Center for Health Equity Research, and Carly Camplain, JD, health policy research… Read more