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Latest Fairness First podcast examines history of the Black community and health equity in Flagstaff 

Posted by ld583 on September 6, 2022

 

In the latest Fairness First “Health Equity Voices” podcast, Deborah Harris told host Alexandra Samarron Longorio that a friend had given her a pendant engraved with, “For such a time as this.” 

That inscription aptly defines… Read more

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Fairness First podcast hosts deliver first ‘Health Equity Chitchat’

Posted by ld583 on February 15, 2022

The founders and co-hosts of the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative’s Fairness First podcast, Carmenlita Chief and Alexandra Samarron Longorio, are venturing into a new podcast format called “Health Equity Chitchat.”

In the span of about 30 minutes, the co-hosts discuss and unpack a critical scholarly publication produced by people identifying as queer or women of color, while also highlighting how the scholarship and knowledge can be applied to academic… Read more

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Fairness First blog: Exploring Valley fever and health equity with Bridget Barker

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Bridget Barker is a research-intensive associate professor in NAU’s Department of Biological Sciences. Her research focus is the ecology/genomics of human pathogens Coccidioides immitis and C. posadasii.

Q. How would you describe your research and why it matters?

A. I study a fungus that causes a disease- the fungus is actually 2 species: Coccidioides immitis and Coccidioides posadasii. The disease… 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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Fairness First releases its first blog: Catrin Edgeley, Wildfires and health equity

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Wildfires and health equity with Catrin Edgeley

Assistant Professor, School of Forestry

Q. Can you tell us more about the research you do around wildfire and social science?

A. I research how human communities can become “fire adapted” (i.e., live with fire while minimizing impacts and losses) before, during, and after wildfires. This involves using a suite of social science… Read more

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Health Justice Futures holds first spotlight series on Sept. 29

Posted by ld583 on September 20, 2021

Join Health Justice Futures in an online conversation on Sept. 29 at 5:30 p.m., MST, with Indigenous visual artists, Liva’ndrea Knoki and Garrett Etsitty, who will discuss the beauty of art in mobilizing Indigenous communities, the power of visibility, and what health justice means in the context of Indigenous sovereignty, gender, housing and… Read more

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