NAU News Feature
October 29, 2019
Health equity issues do not stop during incarceration—in fact, they worsen. Through a collaborative effort, Northern Arizona University researchers from seven departments are working together to examine health care inequities for people who are incarcerated.
Initial results of their work came together in the fall 2019 issue of the journal Practicing Anthropology—titled “Health Disparities in Jail Populations”––dedicated to highlighting the work of NAU researchers in the local community, with Robert T. Trotter II serving as the special guest editor. Trotter is a Regents’ Professor of Anthropology at NAU and the research infrastructure core lead for the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC), an initiative of NAU’s Center for Health Equity Research (CHER). Read more …