Dr. Ricky Camplain was recently featured on Radio Bilingüe, the National Latino Public radio Network in California, in a story on poor conditions and overcrowding leading to COVID-19 outbreak in Avenal State Prison written by Maria Esquinca.
Camplain, an assistant professor at NAU’s Center for Health Equity Research and the Department of Health Sciences, is also an… Read more
Melinda Smith, a doctoral student in the Interdisciplinary Health program, was selected to participate in the Tribal Researchers’ Cancer Control Fellowship Program (TRCCFP).
Smith is a graduate research assistant for the Center for Health Equity Research in the Interdisciplinary Health doctoral program and a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.
As a… Read more
Would you like to learn more about infectious disease epidemiology and key skills for disease investigation? Register today for the Infectious Disease Epidemiology Bootcamps in July.
All Bootcamps are free, but you must register. First event is July 7, so register today!
Dates:
Tuesday, July 7, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Infectious Disease: Epidemiology Basics
Tuesday, July 14, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Infectious Disease: Screening and Testing
Tuesday, July 21, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Infectious Disease: Measures… Read more
Of the 850,000 youth in the U.S. juvenile justice system, youth of color account for about 68 percent according to the Children’s Defense fund—numbers that a national gathering of juvenile justice experts is addressing and hopes to eliminate in the future.
The Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) at Northern Arizona University is partnering with the Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) and The NARBHA Institute to host a… Read more
Lyle Becenti
Hometown: Naschitti, NM
What is your program of study? Master of Public Health– Indigenous Health
When will you graduate? Fall 2020
CHER’s founding director, Dr. Julie Baldwin, has a lifelong commitment to serving diverse communities and to advocating for health promotion programs for children, adolescents, and families. She is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.
Dr. Baldwin spent 10 years at NAU (1994 – 2004) as a tenured faculty member with a joint appointment in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health at the University of Arizona, and worked with other NAU faculty on a project… Read more