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Navajo undergraduate students successful in educating community on COVID-19

Posted by ld583 on January 12, 2023

A group of researchers from Northern Arizona University and Diné College found that employing public health students to deliver COVID-19 information to their own community is an effective way to address residents’ vaccine concerns and hesitancy.

The community-based research study on the Navajo Nation, called the Diné (Navajo) Teachings and Public Health Students Informing… Read more

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Diné College public health students provide vaccine education to Navajo Nation residents through study

Posted by ld583 on October 20, 2021

Though the Navajo Nation has been a U.S. leader in COVID-19 vaccine uptake throughout most of the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine hesitancy does exist there.

Through a grant from the National Institutes of Health, a research team from the Navajo Native American Research Center for Health (NARCH) Partnership will be working with Diné College public health… Read more

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Healthy Navajo K’é podcast brings maternal and child health talks to the Navajo Nation

Posted by ld583 on October 18, 2021

Creating an effective maternal and child health (MCH) podcast on the Navajo Nation requires more than just important health information—it involves having compelling hosts, effective guests, excellent editing and a style to which the audience can relate.

The Healthy Navajo K’é podcast meets all these criteria and then some. For its first episode on oral care for mothers and children on the Navajo Nation, hosts Amber-Rose Waters,… Read more

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Arizona Daily Sun features Navajo Nation MCH Assessment

Posted by ld583 on December 16, 2020

The Arizona Daily Sun featured the Navajo Nation Mother Child Health Assessment, a project of Diné College in partnership with NAU’s Center for Health Equity Research, the Navajo Nation Epidemiology Center and the Navajo Nation Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), in an excellent article by reporter Kaitlin Olsen. To read more, access the article… Read more

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Summer public health enhancement programs for Diné College students, NAU’s project partner, move online during pandemic

Posted by ld583 on June 23, 2020

NAU News Feature
June 23, 2020

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Navajo Nation Stay at Home order, two Diné College programs are being offered virtually this summer. The academic programs provide experiential training for high school and college students and are a collaboration between Diné College and… Read more

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CHER partners with Native American Research Centers for Health (NARCH)

Posted by jmf469 on February 21, 2018

CHER has been awarded funding for several projects from the Native American Research Centers for Health (NARCH), a program supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and Indian Health Service. “The NARCH initiative supports partnerships between American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) tribes or tribally-based organizations and institutions that conduct intensive academic-level biomedical research. NARCH provides opportunities for conducting research, research training, and faculty development to meet the needs of AI/AN communities. The NARCH program also provides opportunities for tribes and tribal organizations to… Read more

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