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Community partner highlight: the Crow Tribe

Posted by ld583 on March 13, 2023

A photo in Montana of cows grazing at sunset.

Building better opportunities for American Indian/Alaska Natives with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias

More than 6 million individuals in the U.S. live with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD), which is projected to increase to more than 15 million by 2060.
Approximately 35% of American Indians and Alaska Natives… Read more

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March 2023 CHER/SHERC newsletter available

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Check out the CHER/SHERC March 2023 newsletter.

Includes features on:

  • CDC awards $6 million to Arizona Tribal Community Health Representative Programs
  • Forest Lake: MPH program partners with Navajo community through service-learning
  • Student Spotlight: Melinda Smith
  • Community partner highlight: The Crow Tribe
  • CEAL team assists CHWs during pandemic
  • ABRC workshop explores developing a diverse rural healthcare… Read more

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SHER’s Community Expert Board

Posted by ld583 on March 9, 2023

Bringing leaders from across Arizona to assist with health equity research, mentoring and expertise

For the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC), having an active group of collaborative, statewide leaders as part of their team is an integral ingredient to the initiative’s successful Community Expert Board.

SHERC assembled a broad spectrum of geographically diverse, multisectoral… Read more

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January 2023 CHER/SHERC news

Posted by ld583 on January 26, 2023

Includes features on:

  • Healthy Diné Nation Act proves tribal sovereign nations can drive their own health policy
  • Team creates culturally relevant lactation spaces
  • Researchers restore biocrusts to fight Valley fever
  • CHER Spotlight: Carmenlita Chief
  • Group examines ‘Human Rights Across the Americas’
  • Read more

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CHER staff spotlight: Carmenlita Chief

Posted by ld583 on January 20, 2023

When Carmenlita Chief is involved in a research project, you can be sure that it will involve listening and connecting to the community in all aspects of the work—from the initial community consultation, throughout the evaluative research study and especially in reporting the findings back to them.

Chief, who holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Arizona, is a senior research coordinator with the Center for Health… Read more

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Restoring biocrusts to fight Valley fever

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From left, Bridget Barker, Marieke Ramsey, Anita Antoninka (Photo by Brandon Quester | AZCIR)

Antoninka, Barker and Rowe use PPP funding to prevent disease by healing soil

When it comes to reducing the cases of Valley fever, one of the solutions may lie in the biocrust. Or, more precisely, the wind not blowing the biocrust.

Valley fever, or coccidioidomycosis, is a fungal disease caused by inhaling spores that live… Read more

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