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CHER & SHERC news
Student Spotlight: Jayme Biakeddy
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COVID-19 was life-altering for most people, but for Jayme Biakeddy, the pandemic changed the course of her career.
During the pandemic, she worked… Read more
CHER associate director’s $4M C-NACHE project featured on PBS
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Arizona PBS
March 20, 2023
New health center addresses disparities among Native Americans
Nicolette Teufel-Shone, associate director for the Center for Health Equity Research, was featured on Arizona PBS to discuss the $4 million Center for Native American Health Equity (C-NACHE) newly funded through the American Cancer Society.
Read the story… Read more
March 2023 CHER/SHERC newsletter available
Check out the CHER/SHERC March 2023 newsletter.
Includes features on:
- CDC awards $6 million to Arizona Tribal Community Health Representative Programs
- Forest Lake: MPH program partners with Navajo community through service-learning
- Student Spotlight: Melinda Smith
- Community partner highlight: The Crow Tribe
- CEAL team assists CHWs during pandemic
- ABRC workshop explores developing a diverse… Read more
ABRC workshop explores developing a diverse rural healthcare workforce
NAU and Texas Tech discuss recruiting, retaining and training students to serve in rural border and tribal regions
On Feb. 18, about 75 people from across Arizona, Texas and throughout the nation gathered both online and at the NAU Phoenix Bioscience Core to discuss how to recruit, retain and graduate a diverse healthcare workforce who will serve in underserved and rural communities, including reservations and border regions as part of the… Read more
SHERC’s Community Expert Board
Bringing leaders from across Arizona to assist with health equity research, mentoring and expertise
For the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC), having an active group of collaborative, statewide leaders as part of their team is an integral ingredient to the initiative’s successful Community Expert Board.
SHERC assembled a broad spectrum of geographically diverse, multisectoral… Read more