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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

Email: jarmin@email.arizona.edu

Research interests: 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

Associate Clinical Professor, NAU Department of Occupational Therapy

Chair, NAU Department of Occupational Therapy

Email: Amy.Armstrong@nau.edu

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

Steven Barger, PhD

Professor, NAU Department of Psychological Sciences

Email: Steven.Barger@nau.edu

Research interests: Social relationships and health, health disparities, social connections.

Mark Bauer, PhD

Professor, Public Health, STEM

Diné College

Email: mcbauer@dinecollege.edu

Research interests: Resilience research, education, application to reduce health disparities

Melanie Bell, PhD

Professor Emeritus, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

University of Arizona

Email: melaniebell@arizona.edu

Research interests: Methods for handling missing data in intervention and cluster randomized trials, patient reported outcomes, and on research methods evaluation. She is currently engaged in collaborative research in the fields of cancer, tobacco cessation, psycho-oncology, cardiovascular disease prevention, and health inequities

Hendrik de Heer, PhD

Professor, NAU Department of Health Sciences

Email: Dirk.deHeer@nau.edu

Research interests: Community-based physical activity and health promotion programs; pediatric obesity; Tribal health policy

Eck Doerry, PhD

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

Email: Eck.Doerry@nau.edu

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

Emery Eaves, PhD

Assistant Professor, NAU Department of Anthropology

Email: Emery.Eaves@nau.edu

Research interests: 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, NAU Department of Health Sciences

Email: Kristan.Elwell@nau.edu

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

Kelly Evenson, PhD

Professor, Epidemiology

Gillings School of Global Public Health

University of North Carolina

Email: kelly_evenson@unc.edu

Research interests: ePhysical activity and sedentary behavior with specific interests in measurement, surveillance, intervention, and associations with outcomes. 

Shane Haberstroh, PhD

Professor, NAU Department of Educational Psychology

Email: Shane.Haberstroh@nau.edu

Research interests:

Jani Ingram, PhD

Regents’ Professor, NAU Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

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

Program PI, Bridges to Baccalaureate Program

Email: Jani.Ingram@nau.edu

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

Chesleigh Keene, PhD

Assistant Professor, NAU Department of Educational Psychology

Email: Chesleigh.Keene@nau.edu

Research interests: 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, NAU Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

Email:  Naomi.Lee@nau.edu
Research interests: Chemical biology, vaccines, self-assembling proteins and peptides, health disparities in tribal communities

Monica Lininger, PhD

Associate Professor, NAU Department of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training

Email:  Monica.Lininger@nau.edu
Research interests: Evaluation, measurement, research methods, applied statistics

Michael McCarthy, PhD

Associate Professor, NAU Department of Social Work

Email: Michael.J.McCarthy@nau.edu
Research interests:

Ramona Mellott, PhD

Professor, Educational Psychology

NAU College of Education

Email: Ramona.Mellott@nau.edu

Research interests:

Joseph Mihaljevic, PhD

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

Email: Joseph.Mihaljevic@nau.edu
Research interests: Modeling infectious disease, virus epidemiology, statistical analysis

George Pro, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Email: gcpro@uams.edu
Research interests: Health disparities measurement, Social and environmental determinants of health, Behavioral health

Lynda Ransdell, PhD

Professor and Chair Department of Kinesiology Boise State University

Email: LyndaRansdell@boisestate.edu

Research interests: Enhancing sports performance in female athletes, physical activity and public health, faculty development

Oaklee Rogers, PhD

Associate Clinical Professor, Occupational Therapy
NAU College of Health Human Services

Assistant Dean, Phoenix Bioscience Core

Email: Oaklee.Rogers@nau.edu

Research interests: Promoting occupational justice for vulnerable populations, advocating for occupational therapy in emerging practice areas, and interprofessional education and practice to meet the Quadruple Aim

Juliette Roddy, PhD, MBA

The NARBHA Institute James Wurgler MD Chair of Criminal Justice and Behavioral Health Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Email: Juliette.Roddy@nau.edu

Research interests: Incarceration, re-entry, substance use and recovery

Sara Shuman, PhD

Assistant Clinical Professor, NAU Department of Health Sciences
Email: Sara.Shuman@nau.edu

 

Heather Thomas, RDH, MEd

Assistant Clinical Professor, NAU Department of Dental Hygiene

Email: Heather.Thomas@nau.edu

Research interests: 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

Casey Totenhagen, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Human Development

The University of Alabama

Email: ctotenhagen@ches.ua.edu

Research interests: 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, Emeritus

Email: Robert.Trotter@nau.edu

Research interests: Medical anthropology, alcohol and drug addiction, corporate anthropology

Melissa Walls, PhD

Associate Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health

Johns Hopkins University

Email: mwalls3@jhu.edu

Research interests: Community-based participatory research, health equity, Indigenous health, community interventions, diabetes prevention, mental health, substance use

Emily Ai-hua Wang, MD, MAS

Professor, Yale School of Medicine and Public Health
Director, SEICHE Center for Health & Justice

Yale University

Email: emily.wang@yale.edu

Research interests: Internal medicine, health and incarceration, advancing equity, population health data programs, incarceration and chronic health conditions, cancer, cardiovascular disease, opioid use disorder

Nancy Whitesell, PhD

Professor, Associate Professor

Centers for American Indian & Alaska Native Health Department of Community & Behavioral Health Indian Center (SOM)

Colorado School of Public Health

Email: nancy.whitesell@cuanschutz.edu

Research interests: Adolescent development within AI/AN cultural contexts, culturally appropriate measurement of child and adolescent outcomes, cultural and contextual influences on child and adolescent development, promotion of successful early development, prevention of early substance use, implementation of evidence-based programs within AI/AN communities

Robert Wickham, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences

Email: Robert.Wickham@nau.edu

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