Samantha Sabo, community engagement core lead for the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative and associate professor for Health Sciences and the Center for Health Equity Research, was appointed president of the Board of Directors for the Arizona Association of Community Health Workers (AzCHOW). Established in 2001, AzCHOW is a statewide… Read more
CHER & SHERC news
September 2021 CHER/SHERC newsletter
Health Justice Futures holds first spotlight series on Sept. 29
Join Health Justice Futures in an online conversation on Sept. 29 at 5:30 p.m., MST, with Indigenous visual artists, Liva’ndrea Knoki and Garrett Etsitty, who will discuss the beauty of art in mobilizing Indigenous communities, the power of visibility, and what health justice means in the context of Indigenous sovereignty, gender, housing and… Read more
Begay wins 2021 ITCA Climate Resilience Essay Scholarship Contest
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, recently won the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona’s 2021 ITCA… Read more
Camplain receives NIH Career Development Award
Researcher will use first ‘K’ Award in Northern Arizona University history to study physical activity of people who are incarcerated in local detention facility
Ricky Camplain, an assistant professor in Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) and the Department of Health Sciences, was recently awarded a Career Development (K01) Award through the National Institute… Read more
CCPS opens applications for 7th round of funding
The Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative’s (SHERC) Community Engagement Core has opened the seventh round of its Community-Campus Partnership Support (CCPS) applications.
CCPS funding is dedicated to developing relationships between NAU faculty, from all disciplines that can contribute to health equity, and their community partners.
Applications are due by October 15 at 5 p.m. Since July 2018, CCPS has funded 16 partnerships through bi-annual competitive… Read more