Tag: Nicolette Teufel-Shone

NAU’s Native cancer research center celebrates an exciting first year

rlr349 | February 20, 2024

A dedicated team of health equity experts, community members, and NAU faculty, staff, and students launched the initiative to new heights, raising awareness of the steps to address cancer health equity for Native American populations in Arizona… Read more

Tribal health advocates and experts discuss cancer health equity at the Annual Arizona Inter-tribal Cancer Health Equity Forum.

CHER associate director’s $4M C-NACHE project featured on PBS

ld583 | March 27, 2023

Arizona PBS … Read more

Working together

ld583 | March 8, 2023

How can you build a stronger Navajo Nation chapter post-pandemic… Read more

People sitting in chairs at Forest Lake chapter house.

KJZZ feature: Native Americans have higher cancer rates. Researchers are trying to figure out why

ld583 | February 3, 2023

The impacts of structural racism has led to many inequities for Native Americans, from poverty to education to health disparities — including cancer rates… Read more

Navajo undergraduate students successful in educating community on COVID-19

ld583 | January 12, 2023

A group of researchers from Northern Arizona University and Diné College found that employing public health students to deliver COVID-19 information to their own community is an effective way to address residents’ vaccine concerns and hesitancy… Read more

Building a healthy Navajo Nation

ld583 | January 11, 2023

In an unprecedented move eight years ago, the Navajo Nation created the first-ever tax in the U.S. that supports health promotion and disease prevention through a law that collects a 2 percent tax on foods with little to no nutritional value and removes the 5 percent tax on fruits, vegetables and water… Read more

$4 million award funds new Center for Native American Cancer Health Equity

ld583 | November 10, 2022

Improving cancer screening rates among Native Americans, increasing education about tribe-specific cancer trends, and addressing disproportionately high exposure to carcinogenic environmental contaminants are just a few aims of the newly funded Center for Native American Cancer Health Equity (C-NACHE)… Read more

Dirk de Heer talking to a student at a table.

SHERC Investigator Development Core serves more than 20 new NAU faculty

ld583 | October 31, 2022

For new faculty members at Northern Arizona University, finding a developed mentorship support team to assist them in their first few years can make all the difference in establishing a successful career, creating effective research and giving back as a mentor to new faculty and students in the future… Read more

SHERC: 5 years of growth, synergy and collaboration

ld583 | October 12, 2022

What began as an innovative, ambitious project more than five years ago, the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative has now grown into a strong, effective team of faculty, staff, students and community organizations—all working together with a singular purpose—to increase basic biomedical, clinical, and behavioral research at NAU to address health disparities among diverse populations of the southwestern United States… Read more

Emery Eaves discusses a project with a team member.

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