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
Published November 24, 2021
Meet Dr. Julie Baldwin, a Regents’ Professor in the Department of Health Sciences and the Director of the Center for Health Equity Research at Northern Arizona University.
Since her doctoral work more than 31 years ago, Northern Arizona University Regents’ Professor Julie A. Baldwin has been working to prevent human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, in a unique way—through community-engaged, culturally centered interventions based on the specific needs in each community.
Baldwin, director of the Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) and… Read more
Researcher will use first ‘K’ Award in Northern Arizona University history to study physical activity of people who are incarcerated in local detention facilityRicky Camplain, an assistant professor in Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) and the Department of Health Sciences, was recently awarded a Career Development (K01) Award through the National Institute… Read more
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
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