The Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative’s (SHERC) Community Engagement Core has opened the sixth round of its Community-Campus Partnership Support (CCPS) applications for funds of up to $5,000 per year — funding is dedicated to developing partnerships between NAU faculty and community organizations.
Applications are due by May 15 at 5 p.m. Partners must spend the funding on… Read more
Over the last four years, the Research Infrastructure Core (RIC) of the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative has been bringing timely and relevant research methods workshops to Northern Arizona University faculty, students, and the local community. So far, RIC has produced more than 30 workshops attended by more than 600 participants.
All pre-recorded workshops are now available online for faculty, students, and community members who want to… Read more
Time is typically something that is elusive. But to Linnea Evans, quantifying the use of time is one of the keys components in identifying structural racism.
Through her innovative research, Evans, an assistant professor at Northern Arizona University’s Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) and Department of Health Sciences, is proving how racial and ethnic minoritized teens are often socially or financially… Read more
Learn more about the Great Beginnings for Healthy Native Smiles project in our February 2021 newsletter:
A mere six months before the pandemic, Amy Armstrong-Heimsoth, associate clinical professor, NAU Department of Occupational Therapy, and her community partner Shevaun Sullivan, director of group home relations for OCJ Kids or Opportunity, Community and Justice for Kids, in Phoenix, received funding from the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative’s Community-Campus Partnership Support (CCPS) for their project.
Their plan… Read more
When Alexandra Samarron Longorio was in her early 20s, as a former undocumented student, she saw that attending college in the United States was an almost impossible task for undocumented students.
A first generation college student of a single mother, Samarron was determined to thrive and, along with other undocumented students, to find higher education opportunities for everyone regardless of immigration status.
The task was not easy. Each year, 98,000… Read more