Tag: Amanda Pollitt

Sexual and gender minority youth who inform families are more accepted, but at varying degrees

ld583 | May 8, 2023

Family acceptance is a crucial component of healthy development during adolescence, especially for sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth who often fear rejection from family members… Read more

Supporting community health workers (CHWs) with resources and training

ld583 | March 8, 2023

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

Pollitt receives NIH R03 award for research on bisexual young adults

ld583 | November 9, 2022

Shortly after arriving at Northern Arizona University’s Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) a year ago, Amanda Pollitt applied to fund her “dream project” through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on relationship quality and health among bisexual young adults… Read more

Student Spotlight: Jeffersson Brasil Pires Dos Santos

ld583 | September 6, 2022

*Dos Santos uses the pronouns they/them/their… Read more

Adolescent Health workshop focuses on best practices to support youth

ld583 | May 18, 2022

The Center for Health Equity Research held a hybrid Adolescent Health workshop on May 12 at the North Country Conference Center in Flagstaff with about half the attendees participating online. Speakers included Amanda Pollitt, PhD, and Linnea Evans, PhD, assistant professors with the Department of Health Sciences and the Center for Health Equity Research (CHER), and Amanda Hunter, PhD, postdoctoral scholar with CHER… Read more

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

Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative investigators work to end the HIV epidemic in rural Oklahoma

ld583 | November 18, 2021

Since her doctoral work more than 31 years ago, Northern Arizona University Regents’ Professor Julie A. Baldwin has been working to prevent human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, in a unique way—through community-engaged, culturally centered interventions based on the specific needs in each community… Read more

Spotlight: Amanda Pollitt

ld583 | July 20, 2021

With an extensive background in LGBTQ health equity, Amanda Pollitt adds a new and important specialization focus to the Center for Health Equity Research’s burgeoning offerings… Read more

NAU researchers expand COVID-19 education and outreach through key collaborations

ld583 | April 20, 2021

According to Samantha Sabo, getting the COVID-19 vaccine to people who need it most requires a team approach with key experts in rural communities leading the way… Read more