Bethany Robinson, a junior year biology undergraduate student in the Northern Arizona University Honors College, was awarded the Hooper Undergraduate Research Award (HURA) — a grant to do her own research on the impact of disability on access to physical activity while incarcerated… Read more
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Begay receives Quayle Scholarship
Jaime Begay, a student in the Northern Arizona University Master of Public Health, Indigenous Health track and a graduate research assistant with the Navajo Native American Research Center for Health partnership, received the Louis H. and Betty… Read more
Latest Fairness First episode explores advancing health equity in Arizona
What are the root causes of health inequity and how do they affect the social determinants of health?
According to the recently released 2020 Regional Health Equity Survey Report (RHES), a key component to the root causes of health equity lies in the paths that create the problem — the unequal… Read more
Williamson awarded two $50,000 grants through the Arizona Developmental Disabilities Planning Council
Heather Williamson, assistant professor in NAU’s Department of Occupational Therapy, Center for Health Equity Research, and Institute for Human Development recently received two $50,000 grants to assist adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities through the Arizona Developmental Disabilities Planning Council Grant… Read more
Upcoming workshops address COVID’s impact on resilience, border health, Navajo Maternal and Child Health needs, and geohealth and climate change
The sixth annual Arizona Biomedical Research Centre Education Series is offering four events, April–June: Resilience, Resistance, Renovation and Rebirth Virtual Conference, April 22–23; Navajo Maternal and Child Health Needs Assessment Workshop, May 6; COVID-19 and Social Determinants of Health: Impact on the Border, May 19; and Read more
Spring 2021 graduates
Congratulations, graduates!
The Center for Health Equity Research and the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative congratulate our spring 2021 graduates.
Omar Gomez, who will earn a Master of Public Health, Indigenous Health Track, was a graduate assistant with CHER. Julianne Brauner, Gabrielle Delio, Hannah Elzer, Hosava Kretzmann, Bonnie Kuss, Leticia Lelli,… Read more