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Camplain appointed to AZPHA board of directors
Congratulations to Carly Camplain, a doctoral student in interdisciplinary health in the Department of Health Sciences, who was recently appointed as a student representative to the board of directors for the Arizona Public Health Association (AZPHA) Camplain is also a program coordinator for the Center for Health Equity Research (CHER), and her doctoral work has an emphasis in health equity. She also… Read more
Fairness First podcast available
What is health equity, anyway? Researchers from Northern Arizona University’s Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) are helping listeners to find out through a new podcast series “Fairness First.”
The podcast is part of the Community Engagement Core (CEC) of the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC), which is a grant initiative under CHER. One of the objectives of SHERC is… Read more
CHER researchers finish Reach Out program study
Two researchers from the NAU’s Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) recently completed an independent study of the Yavapai County Detention Center Reach Out program to evaluate characteristics of inmates after the first year of a three-year program.
Dr. George… Read more
CHER co-hosts national juvenile justice system roundtable on Sept. 26
Of the 850,000 youth in the U.S. juvenile justice system, youth of color account for about 68 percent according to the Children’s Defense fund—numbers that a national gathering of juvenile justice experts is addressing and hopes to eliminate in the future.
The Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) at Northern Arizona University is partnering with the Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) and The NARBHA Institute to host a… Read more
Dr. Ricky Camplain named assistant professor at CHER
Congratulations to Dr. Ricky Camplain, who was recently named as an assistant professor for Health Science and for the Center for Health Equity Research. Dr. Camplain is an epidemiologist interested in methodology, and she is now teaching Principles of Biostatistics at NAU.
“My favorite thing about conducting research and teaching at the Center for Health Equity Research and all of Northern Arizona University is the sense of community,” Dr. Camplain… Read more