Julie A. Baldwin

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 need… Read more

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

Posted by ld583 on February 16, 2021

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

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 …

SHERC researchers survey 200 Arizona leaders on health equity issues in their communities

Posted by ld583 on January 12, 2021

Despite concerted national efforts to create healthier, more equitable communities, health disparities and health inequities still “loom large” in the United States, particularly for people of color and rural communities.

According to the recently released 2020 Regional Health Equity Survey Report (RHES), a way to address health equity issues may lie in cross-sectoral collaboration between Arizona’s top community leaders — those whose individual work, when brought together,… Read more

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