Join Health Justice Futures in an online conversation on Sept. 29 at 5:30 p.m., MST, with Indigenous visual artists, Liva’ndrea Knoki and Garrett Etsitty, who will discuss the beauty of art in mobilizing Indigenous communities, the power of visibility, and what health justice means in the context of Indigenous sovereignty, gender, housing and… Read more
The Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative’s (SHERC) Community Engagement Core has opened the seventh round of its Community-Campus Partnership Support (CCPS) applications.
CCPS funding is dedicated to developing relationships between NAU faculty, from all disciplines that can contribute to health equity, and their community partners.
Applications are due by October 15 at 5 p.m. Since July 2018, CCPS has funded 16 partnerships through bi-annual competitive… Read more
With an extensive background in LGBTQ health equity, Amanda Pollitt adds a new and important specialization focus to the Center for Health Equity Research’s burgeoning offerings.
Though she only arrived at CHER a year ago, she quickly assimilated and is already working with the data team on collecting and analyzing data for the Community-Engagement… Read more
For many Northern Arizona University researchers, the one thing that prevents them from completing groundbreaking research is the cost of equipment or programs needed to capture their data.
For the past five years, NAU’s Southwest Health Equity… Read more
Each year in Arizona, family members spend about 357 million unpaid hours caring for family members with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). Before now, each caregiver in rural northern Arizona had to scramble and search for relevant resources for their loved one, often overlooking their own support and… Read more
What are the root causes of health inequity and how do they affect the social determinants of health?
According to the recently released 2020 Regional Health Equity Survey Report (RHES), a key component to the root causes of health equity lies in the paths that create the problem — the unequal… Read more