Each year in Arizona, family members spend about 357 million unpaid hours caring for family members with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). Before now, each caregiver in rural northern Arizona had to scramble and search for relevant resources for their loved one, often overlooking their own support and… Read more
Northern Arizona University’s Department of Sustainable Communities has been inspiring and training students to make a difference in Flagstaff and throughout Arizona in sustainability, civic engagement, interdisciplinary research and social justice work for more than 20 years.
Peter Friederici, director of Sustainable Communities… Read more
Learn more about CHER’s new culturally centered graduate certificate for health professionals and other stories from our center in the April 2021 newsletter:
Ricky Camplain and Olivia Lindly both received the Northern Arizona University Researcher of the Year for Health Sciences, and Brettania O’Connor was named Innovator of the Year at the recommendation of the Honors and Scholarship committee.
Camplain is an assistant professor in Northern Arizona University’s Department of Health Sciences and epidemiologist at the Read more
What are the root causes of health inequity and how do they affect the social determinants of health?
According to the recently released 2020 Regional Health Equity Survey Report (RHES), a key component to the root causes of health equity lies in the paths that create the problem — the unequal distribution of power… Read more
The Center for Health Equity Research and the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative congratulate our spring 2021 graduates.
Omar Gomez, who will earn a Master of Public Health, Indigenous Health Track, was a graduate assistant with CHER. Julianne Brauner, Gabrielle Delio, Hannah Elzer, Hosava Kretzmann, Bonnie Kuss, Leticia Lelli, Rachelle Phillips, Samantha Sasse and Ary Spilkin all assisted on a variety of CHER and SHERC projects.
We… Read more