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Posted by jmf469 on October 2, 2017 Leave a Comment

CHER Assistant Research Professor, Dr. Kristan Elwell has been involved in establishing a new and much-needed pediatric surgery wing at the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi; it is the first center of its kind in the country. The Mercy James Institute for Pediatric Surgery and Intensive Care will help the hospital double the number of surgeries performed on children each year, and provides a four-bed intensive care unit. It will also become a training center of excellence for southern Africa, training more doctors to help make a difference in the lives of Malawian children.

 

Michigan State University physician, Terrie Taylor’s “groundbreaking research identified that children who die from cerebral malaria do so from massively swollen brains that compress the brain stem and cause the child to stop breathing.  (New England Journal of Medicine, 2015). Taylor is using a separate $8.4M NIH grant to identify the first-ever treatments for children with cerebral malaria. The research will be conducted in Malawi’s first pediatric surgery and intensive care unit built by Raising Malawi, an organization founded by pop legend Madonna.”

Dr. Elwell, along with colleagues at the College of Medicine, University of Malawi, was involved in conducting a formative research study to inform the development of consent procedures

for parents and guardians of children participating in pediatric intensive care research at the new unit.

Madonna opens pediatric surgery center in Malawi

Mercy James Centre and Madonna’s Raising Malawi Program

Filed Under: faculty, News, research Tagged With: africa, child health, clinical care, Global Health, Kristan Elwell, maternal health

Posted by jmf469 on July 28, 2017 Leave a Comment

The Institute for Translational Research Education (ITRE) in Adolescent Drug Abuse is expanding to NAU, bringing opportunities for graduate students at NAU to learn about community-based research in this field, and to partner with local community agencies for a service learning project. This federally-funded, state-of-the-art research education program teaches the practical skills of translational research and implementation science in the field of adolescent behavioral health. The Institute and its outstanding graduate scholars work with community partners, academic mentors, and national mentors to advance the field of translational science and promote evidence-based practice.

See the front-page article from the Arizona Daily Sun about the launch of this new program, and what it means for northern Arizona!

 

Filed Under: Community, faculty, News, research, Students Tagged With: education, grad students, health equity, institute, research, substance abuse, substance use, USF

Posted by jmf469 on May 4, 2017 Leave a Comment

Northern Arizona University contributed to a recent study that suggests sexual violence is widespread among college-age athletic men, and was linked to athletes’ attitudes towards women. CHER Director, Dr. Julie Baldwin, is a coauthor on the study and said “It’s a major public health issue. We need to address this. It’s disconcerting in some ways that these beliefs are still prevalent.”

 

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Filed Under: News, Study Tagged With: athletes, college, sexual assult, violence

Posted by jmf469 on May 4, 2017 Leave a Comment

CHER Assistant Research Professor, Dr. Emery Eaves, is first author on an upcoming article co-authored with Dr. Tim Behrens and colleagues. The article presents analysis of a large-scale survey of college students that shows relationships between meeting vigorous physical activity recommendations and key demographic, lifestyle, and personal characteristics.

Filed Under: faculty, News, research Tagged With: Activity, Emery Eaves, health promotion, physical activity

Posted by jmf469 on April 6, 2017 Leave a Comment

CHER Director, Julie Baldwin, is part of an interdisciplinary team of researchers awarded a grant from the Arizona Biomedical Research Commission to investigate why Arizona preschoolers suffer from tooth decay at a much higher rate than the national average. Rural northern Arizona, in particular, has a troublingly high rate of tooth decay among preschoolers aged 2 to 5 years. The team will collaborate with SMART Smiles and First Things First to sequence the genomes of bacteria collected from plaque samples from about 400 patients. The project’s Principal Investigator, Dr. Viacheslav Fofanov, will lead the effort.

Filed Under: News, partners, research Tagged With: Biomedical, child health, health equity, Julie Baldwin, oral health, research

Posted by jmf469 on November 11, 2016 Leave a Comment

CHER is actively recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to be part of our team. We’re especially interested in candidates with a public health background in health economics, epidemiology, or health services research. Must have PhD by the time of appointment. Find out more by linking to the official posting. Questions can be addressed to us via email at CHER@nau.edu

 

 

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