On Feb. 18, about 75 people from across Arizona, Texas and throughout the nation gathered both online and at the NAU Phoenix Bioscience Core to discuss how to recruit, retain and graduate a diverse healthcare workforce who will serve in underserved and rural communities, including reservations and border regions as part of the… Read more
For the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC), having an active group of collaborative, statewide leaders as part of their team is an integral ingredient to the initiative’s successful Community Expert Board.
SHERC assembled a broad spectrum of geographically diverse, multisectoral… Read more
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.
In a community case study titled, “Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Against COVID-19 Disparities: Academic-Community Partnership… Read more
More than 6 million individuals in the U.S. live with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD), which is projected to increase to more than 15 million by 2060.
Approximately 35%… Read more
Through a one-day, in-person seminar, Arizona’s top journalists, health science professors, a T-Gen scientist, the Navajo Nation president and an Arizona congress member will examine how health messaging from the media and others influenced the COVID-19 pandemic response in the areas of public health, genomic science, policy and media.
This workshop, “Lessons from a… Read more