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Contact TAG Support

Email:
Monica.Lininger​@nau.edu
Call:
928-523-7442
Submit a request

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CHER Technical Assistance Group

Monica Lininger and Mark Remiker are seated in two chairs in the second floor of the ARD building overlooking the lobby. They are both holding papers and Lininger is pointing to Remiker's paper. She has dark, curly hair with her bangs pulled back in a barrette. She is wearing a short sleeved blue shirt and tan pants. Remiker has short brown hair parted on the side and a light beard and mustache. He is wearing a dark green, long-sleeved polo shirt and dark jeans. 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
  • 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

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

Contact

Email:
Monica.Lininger​@nau.edu
Call:
928-523-7442

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Catherine Propper

RCC Lead

Professor, Biological Sciences

Affects of development, reproduction and behavior on environmental contaminants

Contact

Email:
Catherine.Propper​@nau.edu
Call:
928-523-1374

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Robert T. Trotter, II, PhD

RCC Co-lead

Regents’ Professor, Anthropology

Ethnographic research design and methods, community based participatory design, social network analysis, qualitative sampling reliability and validity

Contact

Email:
Robert.Trotter​@nau.edu
Call:
928-523-4521

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Christine Kirby, MA

TAG Specialist

Senior Program Coordinator, SHERC

REDCap, qualitative research design and methods, conversation-discourse analysis

Contact

Email:
Christine.Kirby​@nau.edu
Call:
928-523-4926

Steven Barger, PhD

TAG Specialist

Professor, Psychological Sciences

Complex surveys, cardiovascular disease risk, social relationships, health-related quality of life

Contact

Email:
Steven.Barger​@nau.edu
Call:
928-523-9619

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

Contact

Email:
Emily.Cope​@nau.edu
Call:
928-523-6004

Emery Eaves, PhD

TAG Specialist

Associate Professor, Anthropology

Qualitative analysis, interpretation, evaluation, chronic pain, substance use

Contact

Email:
Emery.Eaves​@nau.edu
Call:
928-523-6281

Viacheslav Fofanov, PhD

TAG Specialist

Associate Professor, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (SICCS)

Statistical methods, database design, honest broker operations

Contact

Email:
Viacheslav.Fofanov​@nau.edu
Call:
928-523-7664

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

Contact

Email:
David.Folch​@nau.edu

Lisa Jane Hardy, PhD

TAG Specialist

Associate Professor, Anthropology

Community Based and Community Engaged Participatory Research, qualitative methods, minority health, health equity

Contact

Email:
Lisa.Hardy​@nau.edu
Call:
928-523-0735

Toby Hocking, PhD

TAG Specialist

Assistant Professor, SICCS

Machine learning, computational statistics, optimization algorithms, big data analysis and visualization, R software

Contact

Email:
Toby. Hocking​@nau.edu
Call:
928-523-5209

Joseph Mihaljevic, PhD

TAG Specialist

Assistant Professor, SICCS

Modeling of infectious diseases, virus epidemiology, quantitative statistical analysis

Contact

Email:
Joseph.Mihaljevic​@nau.edu
Call:
928-523-5125

Michael Petillo, MA

TAG Specialist

Senior Program Coordinator, SHERC

Applied Indigenous methodologies, data visualization, culturally responsive evaluation

Contact

Email:
Michael.Petillo​@nau.edu

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Mark Remiker, MPH

TAG Specialist

Research Coordinator, Senior, SHERC

SPSS, Qualtrics, medical record abstraction, survey development, psychometrics, inferential statistics

Contact

Email:
Mark.Remiker​@nau.edu
Call:
928-523-4295

Indrakshi Roy

Indrakshi Roy, PhD

TAG Specialist

Biostatistician, CHER

Medicare data, causal & power analysis, multilevel regression, instrumental variable, SAS, STATA, R software

Contact

Email:
Indrakshi.Roy​@nau.edu

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

Contact

Email:
Sara.Shuman​@nau.edu

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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

Contact

Email:
Heidi.Wayment​@nau.edu
Call:
928-523-0575

Robert Wickham, PhD

TAG Specialist

Assistant Professor, Psychological Sciences

Longitudinal modeling, dyadic analysis, measurement development/validation, mixture/classification analysis, SAS, Mplus, R

Contact

Email:
Robert.Wickham​@nau.edu
Call:
928-523-7733

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.

  1. TAG service center main page
  2. Click “Submit a TAG request”
  3. Complete form with project details
  4. 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

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