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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

Invaluable Partnership

Posted by ld583 on January 10, 2022

NACA officially partners with NAU’s CHER and College of Education in culturally centered research training program for health professionals

Northern Arizona University’s Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) recently received a $100,000, one-year supplemental grant to collaborate with Native Americans for Community Action, Inc. (NACA) as part of the Culturally-Centered Addictions Research Training, or… Read more

C-CART orientation snapshot

Posted by ld583 on September 15, 2021

C-CART  successfully combines online, in-person orientation

On August 17, students who were recently accepted into the Culturally-Centered Addictions Research Training or C-CART,  met with their instructors for the first time. It was a hybrid experience with several of the students and instructors attending virtually.

The innovative graduate certification program, funded… Read more

SHERC investigators release resource guide for caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias

Posted by ld583 on June 16, 2021

 

 

Each year in Arizona, family members spend about 357 million unpaid hours caring for family members with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). Before now, each caregiver in rural northern Arizona had to scramble and search for relevant resources for their loved one, often overlooking their own support and… Read more

CHER receives almost $1.4M grant to develop culturally centered graduate certificate for health professionals focusing on substance use disorders in underserved communities

Posted by ld583 on April 21, 2021

Northern Arizona University’s Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) recently received an almost $1.4 million grant to create a graduate certificate training program for practicing clinicians and doctoral students in health professions.

The certificate, called Culturally-Centered Addictions Research Training or C-CART, will address substance use disorders, specifically in underserved American Indian, Hispanic, and rural populations.

The innovative graduate certification program, funded through the National Institute on Drug Abuse, fills a critical… Read more

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