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CCPS opens eighth round of funding

Posted by ld583 on November 18, 2021

The Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative’s (SHERC) Community Engagement Core has opened the eighth 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 December 13 at 5 p.m. Since July 2018, CCPS has funded 16 partnerships through bi-annual competitive application rounds totaling… Read more

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

Posted by ld583 on October 20, 2021

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

Posted by ld583 on October 18, 2021

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.… Read more

In the news: Pilot Project Program Antoninka’s Valley fever work | Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative

Posted by ld583 on September 29, 2021

Scientists work to unravel fungus ecology as Valley fever expands throughout West

Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting

Sept. 28, 2021

By Shaena Montanari

PHOENIX—After a rainy July, the McDowell Sonoran Preserve in Scottsdale is unusually green with a mix of Sonoran Desert plants and invasive annual grasses that have suddenly sprung to life. The intense… Read more

Sabo named president of AzCHOW Board

Posted by ld583 on September 22, 2021

Samantha Sabo, community engagement core lead for the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative and associate professor for Health Sciences and the Center for Health Equity Research, was appointed president of the Board of Directors for the Arizona Association of Community Health Workers (AzCHOW). Established in 2001, AzCHOW is a statewide… Read more

News

CCPS opens eighth round of funding

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

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