Learn more about the Great Beginnings for Healthy Native Smiles project in our February 2021 newsletter:
Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative
Pivoting due to COVID leads to project’s success
A mere six months before the pandemic, Amy Armstrong-Heimsoth, associate clinical professor, NAU Department of Occupational Therapy, and her community partner Shevaun Sullivan, director of group home relations for OCJ Kids or Opportunity, Community and Justice for Kids, in Phoenix, received funding from the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative’s Community-Campus Partnership Support (CCPS) for their project.
Their plan was… Read more
Student Spotlight: Alexandra Samarron Longorio
When Alexandra Samarron Longorio was in her early 20s, as a former undocumented student, she saw that attending college in the United States was an almost impossible task for undocumented students.
A first generation college student of a single mother, Samarron was determined to thrive and, along with other undocumented students, to find higher education opportunities for everyone regardless of immigration status.
The task was not easy. Each year, 98,000 undocumented… Read more
CHER/SHERC January 2021 newsletter
SHERC successfully mentors more than 20 young investigators at NAU in 4 years

When new faculty members begin their careers, their first forays in the field can be difficult to navigate, especially when they begin to develop their first grant or to search for initial extramural support.
To mentor young Northern Arizona University investigators, the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC), a grant-funded initiative of the Read more
Fairness First podcast explores institutional injustice and how organizations discuss and act upon health inequity

How comfortable do you think senior management at your organization feels in talking about discrimination, race and racism?
This is one of the questions included in the Regional Health Equity Survey (RHES) that sparked a discussion on the most recent episode of Fairness First, the podcast produced by NAU’s Read more