Tag: Julie Baldwin

Shaping the future of child oral health

ld583 | July 12, 2022

Getting children to brush their teeth daily—let alone properly flossing and avoiding sugary snacks—is difficult for all caregivers… Read more

4th Annual Yuma County Forum: Resilient Communities and Sustainable Health Equity

nhb6 | July 11, 2022

The Center for Health Equity Research (CHER), in collaboration with the Arizona Biomedical Research Centre (ABRC), held the 4th Annual Yuma Forum: Resilient Communities and Sustainable Health Equity… Read more

People sitting around a meeting table at the 4th annual Yuma County Forum.

Kofi Mensah wins Wenner-Gren Foundation award

ld583 | July 8, 2022

David “Kofi” Mensah, a student in Northern Arizona University’s interdisciplinary health doctoral program and a research assistant with Northern Arizona University’s Center for Health Equity Research, won the Wadsworth International Fellowship award through the Wenner-Gren Foundation… Read more

Kofi Mensah sitting at a table with another person working on a laptop.

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

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

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

Invaluable Partnership

ld583 | January 10, 2022

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

NIH features Regents’ Professor Julie A. Baldwin, CHER Director

ld583 | November 24, 2021

Published November 24, 2021… 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