Learn more about CHER’s new culturally centered graduate certificate for health professionals and other stories from our center in the April 2021 newsletter:
CHER & SHERC news
CHER receives almost $1.4M grant to develop culturally centered graduate certificate for health professionals focusing on substance use disorders in underserved communities
Northern Arizona University’s Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) recently received an almost $1.4 million grant to create a graduate certificate training program for practicing clinicians and doctoral students in health professions.
The certificate, called Culturally-Centered Addictions Research Training or C-CART, will address substance use disorders, specifically in underserved American Indian, Hispanic, and rural populations.
The innovative graduate certification program, funded through the National Institute on Drug Abuse, fills a critical need… Read more
NAU researchers expand COVID-19 education and outreach through key collaborations
According to Samantha Sabo, getting the COVID-19 vaccine to people who need it most requires a team approach with key experts in rural communities leading… Read more
Camplain, Lindly receive Researcher of the Year for Health Sciences; O’Connor receives Innovator of the Year
Ricky Camplain and Olivia Lindly both received the Northern Arizona University Researcher of the Year for Health Sciences, and Brettania O’Connor was named Innovator of the Year at the recommendation of the Honors and Scholarship committee.
Camplain is an assistant professor in Northern Arizona University’s
Robinson receives 2 NAU awards in research
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 among… Read more
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 J.… Read more