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SHERC​@nau.edu
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SHERC Executive Committee

Purpose

The SHERC Executive Committee performs the following primary functions:

  • Provide overall management, administrative and logistical support for all center activities
  • Advise on trainings/workshops for grant writing, manuscript writing, clinical/translational research
  • Foster mentoring for all Project Leads
  • Meet with the Advisory Committee twice annually
  • Facilitate statistical and methodological support (i.e. interdisciplinary approaches to addressing health disparities) through the Research Capacity Core
  • Link investigators to the Community Engagement Core (CEC) to develop and build upon community partnerships and to participate in CEC webinars and training
  • Review Pilot Project Proposals and recommend funding
  • Ensure an interactive evaluation, assessment, and feedback system
  • Develop a course of action if programmatic goals are not being met or new directions are needed

Learn more about members of the SHERC Executive Committee.

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Members

Julie Baldwin, PhD

Principal Investigator

Administrative Core Lead and Recruitment Core Lead

Director, Center for Health Equity Research (CHER)

Regents’ Professor, Department of Health Sciences

Community-based participatory research, HIV/AIDS & substance abuse prevention, chronic disease prevention, diverse & rural populations

Dirk De Heer

Hendrik de Heer, PhD

Investigator Development Core Lead

Associate Professor, Department of Health Sciences

Community-based physical activity and health promotion programs; pediatric obesity; Tribal health policy

Monica Lininger, PhD

Research Infrastructure Core Co-Lead

Associate Professor, Physical Therapy & Athletic Training

Evaluation, measurement, research methods, applied statistics

Cathy Propper

Catherine Propper, PhD

Research Infrastructure Core Co-Lead

Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

Affects of development, reproduction and behavior on environmental contaminants

Samantha Sabo, DrPH, MPH

Community Engagement Core Co-Lead

Associate Professor

Social and political context of chronic disease, border health, indigenous community health, Community Health Workers, social determinants of health of vulnerable populations, community-based participatory research

Nicolette Teufel-Shone, PhD

Community Engagement Core Lead

Professor of Health Sciences

Building community capacity to address health promotion in Native American communities, chronic disease prevention

Robert T. Trotter, II, PhD

Research Infrastructure Core Lead

Regents’ Professor, Anthropology

Medical anthropology, alcohol & drug addiction, corporate anthropology

Kelly Laurila, MA

Evaluator

Program management, program evaluation, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, training program evaluation and institutional research capacity

Heidi Wayment

Heidi Wayment, PhD

Co-Investigator, Investigator Development Core and Administrative Core

Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences

Health psychology, self-identity, psychosocial predictors of health behavior, and coping with stressful life events using survey and experimental research design, multivariate statistics (SPSS), structural equation modeling (EQS), data science (R, text mining/text analysis), and network analysis (UCINet)

 


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Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative
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Room 120 Building 56
Applied Research & Development
1395 S Knoles Dr.
Flagstaff, Arizona 86011
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Flagstaff, Arizona 86011
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