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Collaboration and clear communication can improve health equity, researchers find
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
ISEP program featured in NAU Review
Developing future Diné public health leaders starts with early, culturally significant exposure
Successfully guiding Diné youth toward health and public health professions begins with two important ideas—start students in a program in high school and cultivate in them a love and understanding of their own cultural, strength-based assets.
Researchers from Diné College and Northern Arizona University explored… Read more
Developing future Diné public health leaders starts with early, culturally significant exposure
Successfully guiding Diné youth toward health and public health professions begins with two important ideas—start students in a program in high school and cultivate in them a love and understanding of their own cultural, strength-based assets.
Researchers from Diné College and Northern Arizona University explored these findings and other lessons in their recently released publication, “
Master of Public Health, Indigenous Health Track: An innovation in training future health equity leaders
In 2017, Northern Arizona University’s Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) began their collaboration with Diné College, a Tribal College of the Navajo Nation, Navajo Native American Research Center for Health (NARCH) Partnership.
Seeing an urgent need in the community to strengthen Indigenous public health, Nicolette Teufel-Shone, associate… Read more
CHER partnerships build capacity to address American Indian health
From its beginnings in 2016, the Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) has been working with community partners on long-term health equity projects that improve health and wellbeing of American Indian communities of the U.S. Southwest, Southeast and Great Plains. During National American Indian Heritage Month, we highlight a few… Read more