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Regents’ professor Julie Baldwin elected to the National Academy of Medicine

Posted by Eliza Romero on October 18, 2022

Researcher Julie Baldwin pointing to a chart

Regents’ professor Julie Baldwin, founding director of Northern Arizona University’s Center for Health Equity Research, was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Medicine (NAM) for her pioneering research on community-driven HIV/AIDS and substance use prevention interventions for Indigenous youth implemented in school systems and Native communities… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Health Equity Research, Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative

Searching for the needle in a haystack: Are agrochemicals linked to cancer?

Posted by Eliza Romero on August 1, 2022

Machine in field spraying pesticides on crops

Thousands of chemicals are released into the environment yearly for agricultural, industrial and health-related needs. Sorting through which may inadvertently lead to risks to human health is a complex task. A joint study between NAU and the University of Idaho investigated whether there were any correlations between specific types… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Health Equity Research, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative, The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute

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

Posted by Heather Tate on November 4, 2021

Carmenlita Chief and Alexandra Sammarron Longorio

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 the Read more

Filed Under: Center for Health Equity Research, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, School of Forestry, Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative

The impact of incarceration

Posted by Heather Tate on September 24, 2021

Ricky Camplain sitting outside of the Coconino County Jail

The United States has experienced an unparalleled epidemic of incarceration in the past 40 years.

That’s the crux of the research that Ricky Camplain, an assistant professor in Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) and the Department of Health Sciences, has done for years. Her research with collaborators has shown… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Health Equity Research, College of Health and Human Services, Department of Health Sciences, Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative

Mihaljevic awarded Pilot Project Program research grant for West Nile virus work

Posted by Heather Tate on January 12, 2021

Joseph Mihaljevic writing on a whiteboard

Northern Arizona University’s Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC) recently awarded Joseph Mihaljevic a research grant through its Pilot Project Program.

Mihaljevic, an assistant professor in NAU’s School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems (SICCS), will work with Crystal Hepp, assistant professor in SICCS and Benjamin Ruddell, director of SICCS, on… Read more

Filed Under: College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative

SHERC researchers survey 200 Arizona leaders on health equity issues in their communities

Posted by Heather Tate on

RHES report coverDespite concerted national efforts to create healthier, more equitable communities, health disparities and health inequities still “loom large” in the United States, particularly for people of color and rural communities.

According to the recently released 2020 Regional Health Equity Survey Report (RHES), a way to address health equity issues may lie in cross-sectoral collaboration between Arizona’s top community leaders — those whose individual work, when brought together, directly… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Health Equity Research, College of Health and Human Services, Department of Health Sciences, Department of Occupational Therapy, Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative

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