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February 2021 newsletter

Posted by ld583 on February 18, 2021

Learn more about the Great Beginnings for Healthy Native Smiles project in our February 2021 newsletter:

February 2021 newsletter

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Pivoting due to COVID leads to project’s success

Posted by ld583 on February 16, 2021

A mere six months before the pandemic, Amy Armstrong-Heimsoth, associate clinical professor, NAU Department of Occupational Therapy, and her community partner Shevaun Sullivan, director of group home relations for OCJ Kids or Opportunity, Community and Justice for Kids, in Phoenix, received funding from the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative’s Community-Campus Partnership Support (CCPS) for their project.

Their plan was… Read more

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Researchers at NAU join with Hopi and Crow tribes to tackle early childhood tooth decay

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Early childhood caries (ECC), or tooth decay, has been linked to serious chronic health conditions like premature or low birth weight in infants, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and stroke, according to the Arizona Healthy Smiles, Healthy Bodies Survey conducted by the Arizona Department of Health Services.

Researchers from Northern Arizona University’s Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) and other institutions are working to combat… Read more

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Telerehabilitation and Telepractice conference for health professionals, March 4–5

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COVID-19 may present opportunities for improving healthcare delivery. According to a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, telehealth visits with healthcare providers increased 154 percent between March 2019 and March 2020 primarily due to limitations of in-person interactions due to COVID-19.

To address these health care delivery shifts, and to discuss ways in… Read more

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Student Spotlight: Alexandra Samarron Longorio

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When Alexandra Samarron Longorio was in her early 20s, as a former undocumented student, she saw that attending college in the United States was an almost impossible task for undocumented students.

A first generation college student of a single mother, Samarron was determined to thrive and, along with other undocumented students, to find higher education opportunities for everyone regardless of immigration status.
The task was not easy. Each year, 98,000 undocumented… Read more

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Baldwin featured in SignalsAZ on NAU’s NSF top 200 rankings

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By SignalsAZ staff

Northern Arizona University moved up five spots in the most recent National Science Foundation’s (NSF) national research rankings, moving to No. 191 with a fiscal year 2019 performance of $58.91 million.

Year after year, NAU has risen in these rankings, which takes research expenditures into account More …

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