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Building a healthy Navajo Nation

Posted by ld583 on January 20, 2023


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

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

Regents’ professor Julie Baldwin elected to the National Academy of Medicine

Posted by ld583 on October 25, 2022

Regents’ professor Julie Baldwin, founding director of Northern Arizona University’s Center for Health Equity Research, was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Medicine (NAM) for her pioneering research on community-driven HIV/AIDS and substance use prevention interventions for Indigenous youth implemented in school systems and Native communities in the U.S. and globally.

NAM is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of… Read more

NAU research collaborative receives $21M grant to continue pioneering work into health equity in the Southwest

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(Feature from the NAU Review by Heidi Toth)

A groundbreaking research collaborative at Northern Arizona University received another $21 million grant to continue its work to promote health equity and study health disparities among diverse populations of the American Southwest.

The Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) received a $21 million, five-year grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to… Read more

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