Learn more about the importance of our community partner collaborations to address the effects of chemical toxicants on Yuma farmworkers and other stories featured in our February 2022 CHER/SHERC newsletter.
February 2022 CHER/SHERC newsletter
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Fairness First blog: Exploring Valley fever and health equity with Bridget Barker
Bridget Barker is a research-intensive associate professor in NAU’s Department of Biological Sciences. Her research focus is the ecology/genomics of human pathogens Coccidioides immitis and C. posadasii.
Q. How would you describe your research and why it matters?
A. I study a fungus that causes a disease- the fungus is actually 2 species: Coccidioides immitis and Coccidioides posadasii. The disease is Coccidioidomycosis, but we use the common name:… Read more
Staff spotlight: Indrakshi Roy
Why is the field of biostatistics important to health equity? Indrakshi Roy, PhD, biostatistician for the Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) and the Southwest Health Equity Collaborative (SHERC), believes that with the advancement of various technologies, analysis of data is becoming the cornerstone for policy… Read more
Bordeaux awarded twice as Distinguished Graduate Student
Skyler Bordeaux, student in the Northern Arizona University’s Master of Public Health-Health Promotion Program, was recently awarded the Distinguished Graduate Student for both the Department of Health Sciences and the MPH–Indigenous Health program.
“The news of the awards literally took my breath away as I read the award email,” he said. “I… Read more
McGarrity-Yoder and Rodriguez-Pla receive funding to enhance partnership
Maureen McGarrity-Yoder and her community partner, Alicia Rodriguez Pla, received $5,000 in funding from the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative’s (SHERC) Community-Campus Partnership Support (CCPS) for developing their partnership for collaborative work addressing rheumatoid arthritis (RA), associations with nutrition, microbiome health and function, and disease activity, especially in people who are underrepresented in… Read more
Fairness First podcast hosts deliver first ‘Health Equity Chitchat’
The founders and co-hosts of the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative’s Fairness First podcast, Carmenlita Chief and Alexandra Samarron Longorio, are venturing into a new podcast format called “Health Equity Chitchat.”
In the span of about 30 minutes, the co-hosts discuss and unpack a critical scholarly publication produced by people identifying as queer or women of color, while also highlighting how the scholarship and knowledge can be applied to… Read more