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928-523-9104

Affiliated faculty

NAU Center for Health Equity Research

CHER has many affiliated faculty members that are dedicated to providing top-notch education for NAU students.

Julie S. Armin, PhD

Assistant Professor, Family and Community Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine Assistant Professor of Practice, Health Promotion Sciences, University of Arizona College of Medicine Director, Health Disparities Curriculum, University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson

jarmin@email.arizona.edu

520-626-4166

Intersectionality and health, cancer disparities, access to cancer care for historically marginalized populations, community-based research, participatory action research, implementation research

Amy Armstrong-Heimsoth, OTD, OTR/L

Assistant Clinical Professor, Occupational Therapy

Amy.Armstrong@nau.edu

602-827-2671

Clinical pediatrics, neonatal intensive care, home health and school-based practice, neurodevelopmental disabilities, infant motor and sensory development

Steven Barger, PhD

Professor, Psychological Sciences

Steven.Barger@nau.edu

928-523-9619

Social relationships and health, health disparities, social connections.

Samantha Callahan, DDS

Assistant Clinical Professor, Dental Hygiene

Sam.Callahan@nau.edu

928-523-5727

Dawn Clifford, PhD, RD

Director of the Master of Public Health program Associate Professor, Health Sciences

Dawn.Clifford@nau.edu

928-523-2566

Motivational interviewing, non-dietary approaches to health and wellness, Behavior Change Counseling; Dietetics Education

Eck Doerry, PhD

Professor, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems

Eck.Doerry@nau.edu

928-523-9377

Research informatics, mobile and cloud computing, groupware systems, data-driven portals, international engineering education, interdisciplinary design

Emery Eaves, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology

Emery.Eaves@nau.edu

928-523-6281

Chronic pain and drug use, health of people who are incarcerated, maternal drug use, medication-assisted treatment

Kristan Elwell Portrait

Kristan Elwell, PhD, MPH

Assistant Clinical Professor, Health Sciences

Kristan.Elwell@nau.edu

928-523-3812

Health equity, maternal and child health, gender inequities and HIV/AIDS, social determinants of health and barriers to care

Jani Ingram, PhD

Regents’ Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Lead PI, Partnership for Native American Cancer Prevention (NAU)

Program PI, Bridges to Baccalaureate Program

Jani.Ingram@nau.edu

928-523-7877

Environmental contaminants and health; chronic uranium exposure and cancer risk to the Navajo.

Amit Kumar, PhD

Assistant Professor, Physical Therapy

Amit.Kumar@nau.edu

Health care disparities in patients with multimorbidities, with particular emphasis on patient status, socioeconomic status, and provider level factors on patients’ health outcomes

Naomi Lee, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

 Naomi.Lee@nau.edu

 928-523-7379

Chemical biology, vaccines, self-assembling proteins and peptides, health disparities in tribal communities

Nanette Virginia Lopez, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Health Sciences

Nanette.Lopez@nau.edu

928-523-7913

Ecological momentary assessment; parenting and children’s diet, physical activity, and sedentary behaviors; Latinx health

Joseph Mihaljevic, PhD

Assistant Professor, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems

Joseph.Mihaljevic@nau.edu

928-523-5125

Modeling infectious disease, virus epidemiology, statistical analysis

George Pro Portrait

 

 

 

George Pro, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

gcpro@uams.edu

501-526-6720

Health disparities measurement, Social and environmental determinants of health, Behavioral health

Heather Thomas, RDH, MEd

Assistant Clinical Professor, Dental Hygiene

Heather.Thomas@nau.edu

928-523-0953

Interdisciplinary Health/Education/Collaboration, General and Oral Health Equity, Creative Interventions to Address inequity, Community-based research/intervention design, Systemic Health Disparities, Social and Behavioral Determinants of Health

Robert Trotter Portrait

Robert T. Trotter, II, PhD

Regents’ Professor, Anthropology

Robert.Trotter@nau.edu

928-523-4521

Medical anthropology, alcohol and drug addiction, corporate anthropology

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