Tag: Samantha Sabo

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

Working together

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

People sitting in chairs at Forest Lake chapter house.

CDC Awards $6 million to Arizona Tribal Community Health Representative Program

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NAU and international group examine human rights across the americas

ld583 | January 11, 2023

Representatives from six Latin American countries met with more than 30 people from Northern Arizona University on December 5 for a daylong event at the university to examine human rights issues and challenges they are facing in their countries… Read more

Arizona moves toward reimbursing community health workers through Medicaid

ld583 | November 10, 2022

Community health workers (CHWs), community health representatives (CHR) and promotores de salud are the pulse of the people—they are the trusted link between community members and health and social systems… Read more

Collaboration and clear communication can improve health equity, researchers find

ld583 | July 12, 2022

Workshop explores the power and promise of community health workers (CHWs)

ld583 | May 19, 2022

On May 16, through a community health workshop, more than 175 people from across Arizona and throughout the nation gathered both online and at the High Country Conference Center on the Northern Arizona University campus to discuss the future of the vital community health worker (CHW) workforce… Read more

Researchers publish Health Start Program Evaluation Impact Report for AZ Dept. of Health Services

ld583 | February 15, 2022

For Keri Morrill, working as a community health worker (CHW) at North Country HealthCare for the Arizona Health Start Program in Flagstaff for the past 11 years has been much more than a standard, 40-hour-a-week job… Read more

CHER partnerships build capacity to address American Indian health

ld583 | November 18, 2021

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

Sabo named president of AzCHOW Board

ld583 | September 22, 2021

Samantha Sabo, community engagement core lead for the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative and associate professor for Health Sciences and the Center for Health Equity Research, was appointed president of the Board of Directors for the Arizona Association of Community Health Workers (AzCHOW). Established in 2001, AzCHOW is a statewide organization of community-based advocates that provides Community Health Workers (CHWs) with an opportunity to speak with a collective voice… Read more