Samantha Sabo

Supporting CHWs with resources and training

Posted by ld583 on March 8, 2023

CEAL research team supports community health workers during COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of community health workers (CHWs)—including Hispanic/Latinx promotores de salud and Indigenous community health representatives (CHRs)—in getting valuable and trusted scientific information to community members, preventing COVID-19 spread, and linking individuals to essential health and social services and resources.

In a community case study titled, “Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Against COVID-19 Disparities: Academic-Community Partnership… Read more

Working together

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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

CDC Awards $6 million to Arizona Tribal Community Health Representative Program

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Community health representatives pose for a photo after a meeting.

Who are CHRs?

Community health representatives (CHRs) are highly trained, well-established standardized frontline health workers who are trusted to serve the medical and social needs of American Indian communities, often in their homes. CHRs are tribally employed health workers… Read more

NAU and international group examine ‘Human Rights Across the Americas’

Posted by ld583 on January 11, 2023

Representatives from six Latin American countries met with more than 30 people from Northern Arizona University on Dec. 5 for a daylong event at the university to examine human rights issues and challenges they are facing in their countries.

The NAU discussion, which was sponsored by the Center… Read more

Arizona moves toward reimbursing community health workers through Medicaid

Posted by ld583 on November 10, 2022

A slide from an Indian Health Service Public and Community Health Virtual Summit show the innovative and collaborative approaches to support community health partners.

Community health workers (CHWs), community health representatives (CHR) and promotores de salud are the pulse of the people—they are the trusted link between community members and health and social systems.

This workforce—estimated at more than 2,000 workers—operates across Arizona, in health and social services,… Read more

Collaboration and clear communication can improve health equity, researchers find

Posted by ld583 on July 12, 2022

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

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