A standing-room-only audience of more than 100 people filled the Native American Cultural Center at Northern Arizona University for Dr. Jennifer Denetdale’s presentation on “Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women” on Feb. 5, 2020.
Dr. Denetdale (Diné) is a professor of American Studies at The University of New Mexico, and is a member of the Missing & Murdered… Read more
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Carmenlita Chief named vice president of NACA board
Congratulations to Carmenlita Chief, senior program coordinator for Northern Arizona University Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) and the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC), who was recently appointed as vice president of the Native Americans for Community Action, Inc. (NACA) executive board of directors. The appointment is for a one-year term effective… Read more
Naomi Lee named 2020 Emerging Scholar
Congratulations to Naomi Lee for being awarded the 2020 Emerging Scholars Award by Diverse: Issues In Higher Education.
An assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Northern Arizona University and a principal investigator for a SHERC Pilot Project, she was one of 15 scholars chosen from around the country and was nominated by Gabe Montaño, a professor and department chair in the… Read more
Drs. Sabo and Camplain publish CHR workforce assessment
Congratulations to Dr. Samantha Sabo, associate professor for the Department of Health Science and the Center for Health Equity Research for Northern Arizona University, Dr. Ricky Camplain, CHER and health science assistant professor, and Louisa… Read more
C. Camplain awarded scholarship to correctional health policy conference
Carolyn Camplain, doctoral candidate in Interdisciplinary Health and a program coordinator with the Center for Health Equity Research, was awarded the Warren J. Ferguson Scholarship to attend the 13th Annual Academic and Health Policy Conference on Correctional Health, April 2–3, in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Dr. Ferguson is the director of Academic Programs, Health and Criminal Justice Programs… Read more
CHER study assesses cord blood banking for American Indian parents
Since the first cord blood transfusion was performed in 1988, doctors have performed more than 40,000 cord blood transplants worldwide to treat more than 80 life-threatening illnesses, including leukemia, lymphoma, blood cancers and sickle cell disease. Despite the need, about 96 percent of cord blood is discarded from the nearly four million births in the United States… Read more