Tag: Nicolette Teufel-Shone

Collaboration and clear communication can improve health equity, researchers find

ld583 | July 12, 2022

Indigenous Summer Enhancement Program (ISEP) program featured in NAU Review

ld583 | June 10, 2022

Successfully guiding Diné youth toward health and public health professions begins with two important ideas—start students in a program in high school and cultivate in them a love and understanding of their own cultural, strength-based assets… Read more

Developing future Diné public health leaders starts with early, culturally significant exposure

ld583 | April 7, 2022

Master of Public Health, Indigenous Health Track: An innovation in training future health equity leaders

ld583 | November 18, 2021

In 2017, Northern Arizona University’s Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) began their collaboration with Diné College, a Tribal College of the Navajo Nation, Navajo Native American Research Center for Health (NARCH) Partnership… Read more

Nicolette-Teufel-Shone in front of a classroom teaching students.

CHER partnerships build capacity to address American Indian health

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From its beginnings in 2016, the Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) has been working with community partners on long-term health equity projects that improve health and wellbeing of American Indian communities of the U.S. Southwest, Southeast and Great Plains. During National American Indian Heritage Month, we highlight a few of our treasured partnerships… Read more

Diné College public health students provide vaccine education to Navajo Nation residents through study

ld583 | October 20, 2021

Though the Navajo Nation has been a U.S. leader in COVID-19 vaccine uptake throughout most of the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine hesitancy does exist there… Read more

Healthy Navajo K’é podcast brings maternal and child health talks to the Navajo Nation

ld583 | October 18, 2021

Creating an effective maternal and child health (MCH) podcast on the Navajo Nation requires more than just important health information—it involves having compelling hosts, effective guests, excellent editing and a style to which the audience can relate… Read more

CCPS opens applications for 7th round of funding

ld583 | September 15, 2021

The Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative’s (SHERC) Community Engagement Core has opened the seventh round of its Community-Campus Partnership Support (CCPS) applications… Read more

Resilient teamwork: partners adapt summer program during COVID

ld583 | July 20, 2021

When the COVID-19 pandemic closed businesses and eliminated most summer programs in Arizona last year, a team from Diné College and Northern Arizona University’s Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) quickly pivoted to an online curriculum for Diné students in two longtime summer education programs… Read more

Authors examine the implications of the Navajo Maternal and Child Health Needs Assessment at May 6 workshop

ld583 | May 3, 2021

For the first time, the Arizona Department of Health Services included the Navajo Nation in their 2020 Arizona Maternal Child Health Needs Assessment report, which is produced by the Bureau of Women’s and Children’s Health every five years… Read more