Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative

2021 Research Poster Presentation and Reception

Posted by ld583 on January 12, 2022

SHERC holds successful event featuring current projects

For the first time since 2019, the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative displayed more than 15 pilot projects, research projects and supplements at their socially distanced, but still lively, Research Poster Presentation and Reception on Dec. 8 at the High Country Conference Center.

Northern Arizona University President José Luis Cruz Rivera was the guest speaker along with Catherine Propper, professor in the NAU Department… Read more

Ladner develops method to detect complete history of viral exposures with a single test

Posted by ld583 on January 10, 2022

Funding for a Pilot Project Program through Northern Arizona University’s Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC) allowed Jason Ladner, assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, to develop a unique “technological toolbox” that can identify and characterize antibodies against many different viruses simultaneously rather than only one at… Read more

3 NAU junior investigators earn grants in the Pilot Project Program’s 5th funding year

Posted by ld583 on October 18, 2021

The Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC) awarded three NAU researchers grants totaling $150,000 for health equity research in the local community through the Pilot Project Program (PPP).

The PPP awarded grants to: Davis Henderson, assistant professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, for his project “Navajo Children with and without Speech Sound Disorders; Amanda Hunter, postdoctoral scholar, Center for Health Equity… Read more

Fairness First Campaign: Bringing community organizations and researchers together through discussions, experiential learning and social mixers

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Carmenlita Chief and Alexandra Samarron Longorio have devoted their careers to ensuring that every person, especially the most underrepresented and underserved, has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible.

It was this commitment to health equity that sparked the senior research coordinators at the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative’s Community Engagement Core to create their recently released Fairness First Campaign.

Through… Read more

Fairness First releases its first blog: Catrin Edgeley, Wildfires and health equity

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Wildfires and health equity with Catrin Edgeley

Assistant Professor, School of Forestry

Q. Can you tell us more about the research you do around wildfire and social science?

A. I research how human communities can become “fire adapted” (i.e., live with fire while minimizing impacts and losses) before, during, and after wildfires. This involves using a suite of social science… Read more

Health Justice Futures holds first spotlight series on Sept. 29

Posted by ld583 on September 20, 2021

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

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