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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’
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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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Building a healthy Navajo Nation

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Healthy Diné Nation Act proves tribal sovereign nations can drive their own health policy

In an unprecedented move eight years ago, the Navajo Nation created the first-ever tax in the U.S. that supports health promotion and disease prevention through a law that collects a 2 percent tax on foods with little to no nutritional value and removes the 5 percent tax on fruits, vegetables and water.

Funding from the tax,… Read more

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Is rapid online ethnography effective in studying telehealth during the pandemic for people who use drugs? Researchers say yes and no

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Emery Eaves works on her computer surrounded by three students. She is smiling and has long, wavy brown hair parted on the side. The student on the left has brown hair and is wearing glasses and has her arm up to her face. The student to right of Eaves has long, straight blond hair parted to the side, and the student far right has short, curly, light brown hair and… <a href=Read more

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Indrakshi Roy named NAU assistant research professor

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Congratulations to Indrakshi Roy who was recently named an assistant research professor for the Northern Arizona University Department of Health Sciences and for the Center for Health Equity Research (CHER). Roy’s professional interests are ingerontology, health disparities, health services research, health economics, health policy implications and healthy aging. She has been at CHER for three years as a biostatistician.

“I feel fortunate to be working as an assistant research professor… Read more

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