Learn more about Northern Arizona University’s Master of Public Health, Indigenous Track program and other stories featured in our November 2021 CHER/SHERC newsletter.
2021 November CHER/SHERC Newsletter
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Amanda Hunter: Investing in Indigenous Youth through Native Spirit
Amanda Hunter’s commitment to Indigenous health equity, specifically for youth and young adults, is shaping her prolific work as the Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) postdoctoral scholar.
Her interest in developing Indigenous health equity started almost 10 years ago. After earning her bachelor’s degree in physiology, Amanda Urbina, now Hunter,… Read more
Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative investigators work to end the HIV epidemic in rural Oklahoma
Since her doctoral work more than 31 years ago, Northern Arizona University Regents’ Professor Julie A. Baldwin has been working to prevent human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, in a unique way—through community-engaged, culturally centered interventions based on the specific needs in each community.
Baldwin, director of the Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) and… Read more
CCPS opens eighth round of funding
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
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
2021 October CHER/SHERC newsletter
Learn more about Northern Arizona University’s Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative Fairness First Initiative and other stories featured in our October 2021 CHER/SHERC newsletter.
