Congratulations to Dr. 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 Dr. Gabe Montaño, a professor and department chair in… Read more
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 O’Meara, research… Read more
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 and… Read more
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 each… Read more
Dr. Nicolette Teufel-Shone, associate director of the Northern Arizona University Center for Health Equity Research, was recently appointed as an editorial board member of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, an open access peer-reviewed scientific journal. The journal publishes articles and communications in environmental health sciences and public health.
The American Occupational Therapy Foundation (AOTF) recently featured Dr. Heather Williamson, CHER faculty and assistant professor for the Department of Occupational Therapy, and her work as the main story in their November newsletter. The… Read more