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CHER Technical Assistance Group
Are you an NAU faculty member, graduate student, or postdoctoral scholar who is working on a publication and need some assistance with any phase of your research project?
The Technical Assistance Group (TAG) is a service center within the Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) that can help.
Who we are Accordion Closed
To create the Technical Assistance Group Service Center, we brought together a strong team of Northern Arizona University research experts from a variety of fields to help you with your research projects.
How can we help you Accordion Closed
Our team of faculty/staff members can help you with any portion of your research projects that you might not have expertise in, including:
- Statistical analyses
Research design, quantitative methodologies, epidemiological analyses, longitudinal modeling, causal analysis, honest broker operations, inferential statistics, structural equation modeling, power analysis, and analytic program assistance - Qualitative methods and analyses
Community-based participatory design, social network analyses, interview guide development, qualitative analyses - Machine learning
Big data analysis and visualization, optimization algorithms - Geographic Information Systems
Spatial analyses, spatial data management and integration, map design - Software utilization
REDCap, Qualtrics, NVivo, Atlas.ti, SAS, SPSS, R, Python, ArcGIS, QGIS, JMP, Stata, G*Power
How to pay for our services Accordion Closed
Health equity-related research could have services paid for by the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (a large center grant on campus).
Please contact the TAG Service Center director, Monica Lininger, Ph.D., at Monica.Lininger@nau.edu for billable rates involving research that is not health equity-related.
Technical Assistance Group—Our team Accordion Closed
Monica Lininger, PhD
TAG Service Center Director
Associate Professor, Physical Therapy & Athletic Training
Psychometrics, questionnaire item development, study design, quantitative statistical analyses
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Catherine Propper
RCC Lead
Professor, Biological Sciences
Effects of development, reproduction and behavior on environmental contaminants
Mike Anastario, PhD
Tag Specialist
Assistant Professor, Health Sciences
Mixed qualitative and quantitative study design/analysis, behavioral exposure assessments
Anita Antoninka, PhD
Tag Specialist
Assistant Research Professor, NAU School of Forestry
Structural Equation Modeling, AMOS, plant, soil, community, and restoration ecology
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Steven Barger, PhD
TAG Specialist
Professor, Psychological Sciences
Complex surveys, cardiovascular disease risk, social relationships, health-related quality of life
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Eric Cerino, PhD
TAG Specialist
Assistant Professor, Psychological Sciences
Intensive repeated measurements, longitudinal analysis, multilevel modeling, daily health and well-being, SAS
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Emily Cope, PhD
TAG Specialist
Associate Professor in Biological Sciences, NAU Institutional Review Board (IRB) Chair
Human subjects research, IRB proposal development, NAU IRB forms and IRBnet, human microbiome research
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Emery Eaves, PhD
TAG Specialist
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Qualitative analysis, interpretation, evaluation, chronic pain, substance use
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Viacheslav Fofanov, PhD
TAG Specialist
Associate Professor, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (SICCS)
Statistical methods, database design, honest broker operations
David C. Folch, PhD
TAG Specialist
Assistant Professor, Geography, Planning and Recreation
Geographic Information System, spatial analysis, demographic analysis, workflow automation, Python, R, ArcGIS, QGIS
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Lisa Jane Hardy, PhD
TAG Specialist
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Community Based and Community Engaged Participatory Research, qualitative methods, minority health, health equity
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Toby Hocking, PhD
TAG Specialist
Assistant Professor, SICCS
Machine learning, computational statistics, optimization algorithms, big data analysis and visualization, R software
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Sara Kien, PhD
TAG Specialist
Associate Teaching Professor, Psychological Sciences
Natural language processing, social media analysis, sentiment analysis, text classification and summarization
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Christine Kirby, MA
TAG Specialist
Senior Program Coordinator, SHERC
REDCap, qualitative research design and methods, conversation-discourse analysis
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Taylor Lane, PhD
TAG Specialist
Research Scientist, SHERC
Nested designs, data manipulation & cleaning, R software, SPSS
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Michael McCarthy
TAG Specialist
Associate Professor, Social Work
Dyadic research study design, recruitment, data collection, and analysis with a topic focus on chronic illness
Joseph Mihaljevic, PhD
TAG Specialist
Assistant Professor, SICCS
Modeling of infectious diseases, virus epidemiology, quantitative statistical analysis
Stephen Nuño-Perez, PhD
TAG Specialist
Professor, Faculty Fellow, Politics and International Affairs
Survey construction, focus groups, deployment, oversampling, communications, non-profits, Latinos
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Mark Remiker, MPH
TAG Specialist
Research Coordinator, Senior, SHERC
SPSS, Qualtrics, medical record abstraction, survey development, psychometrics, inferential statistics
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Sara Shuman, PhD
TAG Specialist
Assistant Clinical Professor, Health Sciences
Program evaluation with community-engaged participatory methods, health equity, English/Spanish language, KoBoTool Box, NVivo, Atlas.ti
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Heidi Wayment, PhD
TAG Specialist
Professor, Psychological Sciences
Survey and experimental research design, SPSS, EQS, R software, psychosocial predictors of health behavior and coping with stressful life events
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Robert Wickham, PhD
TAG Specialist
Assistant Professor, Psychological Sciences
Longitudinal modeling, dyadic analysis, measurement development/validation, mixture/classification analysis, SAS, Mplus, R
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How do you submit a TAG request?
To submit a support request, complete the TAG form for assistance with any phase of your research project.
- TAG service center main page
- Click “Submit a TAG request”
- Complete form with project details
- You will be contacted within 24 business hours
Where does your TAG request go after submitting a ticket?
Learn more from a TAG user, Amanda Hunter, PhD