The Culturally Centered Addictions Research Training (C-CART) program welcomes its second cohort of nine scholars. The purpose of the C-CART is to educate clinicians, providers, and doctoral students in health professions in research skills that include culturally-centered practices, related to substance use and substance use disorders which can be applied in interprofessional practice… Read more
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CHER and SHERC welcome new and current students for fall 2022
The Center for Health Equity Research and the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative welcome new and current students to the fall 2022 semester. Read below for more information on them and find out what motivated them to want to earn a degree in public health.
July 2022 CHER/SHERC newsletter available
Check out the CHER/SHERC’s July 2022 newsletter.
Includes features on:
- Amanda Hunter is first NAU postdoc to receive NIH Pathway to Independence Award
- Science duo advances cancer research in novel ways
- Study addresses early childhood caries on Hawai`i Island
- Moving research news beyond academia
- Fairness First blog: Health equity and human disease systems
- Collaboration and clear communication can improve health equity
- Camplain earns Innovative Mentor Award
- Baldwin named to Flinn Foundation board
- Mensah wins Wenner-Gren Foundation award
- Lady Shug: How can we creat health systems… Read more
Expanding Native Spirit
Collaboration and clear communication can improve health equity, researchers find
Health Disparities
The differences in health status and disease burden (e.g., lower quality of life, financial costs, and death) exist among specific populations based on social or demographic factors such as race and income.
Social Determinants of Health
The conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age (e.g., air quality, schools, parks, jobs, housing conditions, etc.).
Health Equity
Health equity is when every person has a fair and equal opportunity to be as healthy as possible and no one is… Read more