Amanda Pollitt
Supporting CHWs with resources and training
CEAL research team supports community health workers during COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of community health workers (CHWs)—including Hispanic/Latinx promotores de salud and Indigenous community health representatives (CHRs)—in getting valuable and trusted scientific information to community members, preventing COVID-19 spread, and linking individuals to essential health and social services and resources.
In a community case study titled, “Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Against COVID-19 Disparities: Academic-Community Partnership… Read more
Pollitt receives NIH R03 award for research on bisexual young adults
Student Spotlight: Jeffersson Brasil Pires Dos Santos
Adolescent Health workshop focuses on best practices to support youth
The Center for Health Equity Research held a hybrid Adolescent Health workshop on May 12 at the North Country Conference Center in Flagstaff with about half the attendees participating online. Speakers included Amanda Pollitt, PhD, and Linnea Evans, PhD, assistant professors with the Department of Health Sciences and the Center for Health Equity… Read more
Student Spotlight: Shaylynne Shuler
Having grown up in a highly religious and conservative area, Shaylynne Shuler witnessed LGBTQ people around her struggling… Read more