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Nicolette Teufel-Shone

CHER associate director’s $4M C-NACHE project featured on PBS

Posted by ld583 on March 27, 2023

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Nicolette Teufel-Shone appears on Arizona PBS from her office in the NAU Applied Research and Development building.

 

Arizona PBS
March 20, 2023

New health center addresses disparities among Native Americans

Nicolette Teufel-Shone, associate director for the Center for Health Equity Research, was featured on Arizona PBS to discuss the $4 million Center for Native American Health Equity (C-NACHE) newly funded through the American Cancer Society.

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Working together

Posted by ld583 on March 8, 2023

Navajo community partners with MPH students on service-learning survey

How can you build a stronger Navajo Nation chapter post-pandemic?

Improving the Navajo Nation Forest Lake Chapter’s healthy living infrastructure has been a top priority in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic for chapter house leaders.

For Mae-Gilene Begay, president of Navajo Nation Forest Lake Chapter governance in Pinon,… Read more

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KJZZ feature: Native Americans have higher cancer rates. Researchers are trying to figure out why

Posted by ld583 on February 3, 2023

Nicolette Teufel-Shone, PhD

By Lauren Gilger
Jan. 31, 2023

The impacts of structural racism has led to many inequities for Native Americans, from poverty to education to health disparities — including cancer rates.

This group has higher rates of cancer, including lung, colorectal, liver, stomach and kidney… Read more

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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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Building a healthy Navajo Nation

Posted by ld583 on January 11, 2023


Healthy Diné Nation Act proves tribal sovereign nations can drive their own health policy

In an unprecedented move eight years ago, the Navajo Nation created the first-ever tax in the U.S. that supports health promotion and disease prevention through a law that collects a 2 percent tax on foods with little to no… Read more

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$4 million award funds new Center for Native American Cancer Health Equity

Posted by ld583 on November 10, 2022

Nicolette Teufel-Shone teaches a class.

Improving cancer screening rates among Native Americans, increasing education about tribe-specific cancer trends, and addressing disproportionately high exposure to carcinogenic environmental contaminants are just a few aims of the newly funded Center for Native American Cancer Health Equity (C-NACHE).

Nicolette Teufel-Shone, associate director of the Center for… Read more

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