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Carmenlita Chief

CHER staff spotlight: Carmenlita Chief

Posted by ld583 on January 11, 2023

When Carmenlita Chief is involved in a research project, you can be sure that it will involve listening and connecting to the community in all aspects of the work—from the initial community consultation, throughout the evaluative research study and especially in reporting the findings back to them.

Chief, who holds a Master of Public… Read more

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Reducing H. pylori in Navajo Nation tribal members through testing and education

Posted by ld583 on September 6, 2022

Members of the Navajo Health Stomach team present educational materials about stomach cancer at a flea market in Shiprock, NM.

How can you eliminate a pervasive, yet undiscussed, bacterial infection from the Navajo Nation? For a collaborative group of researchers, it requires dedication, hours of travel, and unfailing commitment to present… Read more

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Collaboration and clear communication can improve health equity, researchers find

Posted by ld583 on July 12, 2022

Health Disparities

The differences in health status and disease burden (e.g., lower quality of life, financial costs, and death) exist among specific populations based on social or demographic factors such as race and income.

Social Determinants of Health

The conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age (e.g., air quality, schools, parks, jobs, housing conditions, etc.).

Health Equity

Health equity is when every person has a fair and equal opportunity to be as healthy as possible and no one is… Read more

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Lady Shug mixes health equity talk and drag for a unique community event

Posted by ld583 on July 8, 2022

photo of Lady Shug with her left pointer finger on her left cheek and her right arm holding her left wrist. She has a large, 50s-style bun on the top of her head and is wearing a yellow sleeveless dress and red lipstick. She has two palm-sized heart rings–-one on each ring finger.Read more

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Fairness First Campaign: Bringing community organizations and researchers together through discussions, experiential learning and social mixers

Posted by ld583 on October 18, 2021

Carmenlita Chief and Alexandra Samarron Longorio have devoted their careers to ensuring that every person, especially the most underrepresented and underserved, has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible.

It was this commitment to health equity that sparked the senior research coordinators at the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative’s Community Engagement Core to create their recently released Fairness First Campaign.

Through… Read more

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Latest Fairness First episode explores advancing health equity in Arizona

Posted by ld583 on April 20, 2021

What are the root causes of health inequity and how do they affect the social determinants of health?

According to the recently released 2020 Regional Health Equity Survey Report (RHES), a key component to the root causes of health equity lies in the paths that create the problem — the unequal… Read more

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