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Email:
Catherine.Propper​@nau.edu

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RCC Methodological & Infrastructure Resources

  • RCC Faculty
  • RCC Workshops and Mini-Methods Training
  • SHERC-Funded Multi-User Equipment Directory
  • RCC Partnership with ISSR Workshops

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  • RCC Mailing List and Research Interests
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  • External workshop request form
  • ADAMS Access Request Form

Other Resource Links

  • Updated Clinical Trials Information
  • American Indian and Alaska Native Research in the Health Sciences: Critical Considerations for the Review of Applications 

Research Capacity Core

Research Capacity Core (RCC) of the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC) is responsible for supporting health equity research efforts university-wide through their technical assistance group, methodological education workshop program and infrastructure enhancement program.

Basic functions of RCC include helping health equity projects, programs and affiliated investigators to acquire, develop, implement and disseminate cutting-edge interdisciplinary research methods and emerging technologies.

RCC faculty and staff provide (qualitative and quantitative) research design, methodological expertise, informatics, and statistical support through the Center for Health Equity Research’s Technical Assistance Group (CHER TAG), and SHERC-oriented workshops focused on the goals of the SHERC cores and health equity-related projects.

Requests to the CHER TAG involving health research in social, biomedical, behavioral, or clinical studies may have services covered through RCC funding. RCC also provides research infrastructure support to NAU faculty and community partners engaged in health equity collaborative research.

RCC structure includes:

CHER Technical Assistance Group

The Technical Assistance Group (TAG) is now housed within the newly founded CHER TAG Service Center. You can still easily request support here and at the icon on the right side of this panel.

TAG faculty and staff have a broad range of expertise to assist with all aspects of project development associated with health equity research including qualitative and/or quantitative support for research design, methodological details, and statistical analysis.

To submit a request for support, complete the TAG form for assistance with any phase of your health equity related research project.

RCC Methodological Education Workshop Program

This program includes opportunities for individual investigators and multidisciplinary groups to acquire cutting-edge methods and research protocols through attending internal and external workshops.

RCC internal workshop events

Content experts provide training for NAU faculty and staff, in a workshop format for a wide variety of methods and disciplines including research design and methodological/analytical tools that support health equity-related research. Workshops occur throughout the academic year and summer. Please see the RCC events page for a list of upcoming events.

To register for a RCC Internal Workshop, visit our RCC Workshop registration page.

RCC External Workshops

RCC also has limited support for faculty to attend external methodological workshops or trainings to enhance their health equity-related research skills. Determinations on funding are based on research goals (SHERC assists biomedical, clinical, social and behavioral, and health equity research) and willingness to disseminate knowledge back to the NAU community.

To submit a request for support for an external workshop/program, please complete the External Workshop Request Form.

RCC Capacity Enhancement Program

Through this program, we will provide access to qualitative, quantitative, and other computational tools and infrastructure as well as key multi-disciplinary lab and field equipment needs.

RCC as limited funds each year to support equipment repair and/or service contracts. The equipment should be used for research associated with health equity related projects that include clinical, behavioral, sociocultural, and basic science paradigms. Priority will be given to equipment that has multiple users. Faculty are highly encouraged to provide a minimum of 50% of the costs from other resources (grant, IDC support, Department, College, etc.).

Please submit your request using the RCC Equipment Support Request Form

Additionally, the RCC team has compiled a list of publicly available health-related electronic databases that NAU faculty can query in order to conduct their own secondary data analysis. These databases are searchable, and the data can be used to gather both general information and to access data that can be compiled to test novel hypotheses in social, behavioral and biological sciences. Please check out the links here:

Publicly available resources

Researchers can review descriptions and access these databases:

  • RCC publicly available data table
  • Qualitative and Quantitative software trainings
  • Medicare Data Access (NAU)

Enhancing Interinstitutional Collaboration

We continue to enhance research at NAU through interinstitutional collaboration. RCC strengthens external interdisciplinary research partnerships to strategically build NAU research infrastructure in health equity-related research.

Specifically, RCC works closely with Arizona State University’s Institute for Social Science Research, Florida International University’s RCMI, and with other NIH supported centers, such as the American Indian-Alaska Native Clinical Translational Research Program (AI-AN CTRP).

These centers are able to support research infrastructure development and application of cutting-edge methods and analytical needs for SHERC faculty and research groups.

Data Use Agreement and Guidelines
For information on Northern Arizona University’s  commitment to preserving, protecting and sharing data in accordance with applicable federal and state laws, regulations, policies, and higher education academic and scientific norms and best practices, visit the External Data Use Agreements page.
Please review the NAU Data Security Guidelines prior to any data use or collection.

Research Capacity Core—Our team

Catherine Propper

Research Capacity Core Lead

Co-Principal Investigator, Research Project #2

Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

Affects of development, reproduction and behavior on environmental contaminants

Contact

Email:
Catherine.Propper​@nau.edu
Call:
928-523-1374

 

Robert T. Trotter, II, PhD

Research Capacity Core Co-Lead

Regents’ Professor, Anthropology

Ethnographic research design and methods, community based participatory design, social network analysis, qualitative sampling reliability and validity, health care systems research, cross-cultural applicability research design

Contact

Email:
Robert.Trotter​@nau.edu
Call:
928-523-4521

Monica Lininger, PhD, LAT, ATC

TAG Service Center Director, Research Capacity Core Co-Lead

Associate Professor, Physical Therapy & Athletic Training

Psychometrics, questionnaire item development, study design, quantitative statistical analyses

Contact

Email:
Monica.Lininger​@nau.edu
Call:
928-523-7442

Christine Kirby, MA

Program Coordinator, Senior, SHERC

Qualitative Research (including codebook construction), RCTs (protocols), Conversation-Discourse Analysis, and Program Expertise in REDCap, Nivo, Atlas.ti

Contact

Email:
Christine.Kirby​@nau.edu
Call:
928-523-4926

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Steven Barger, PhD

Core Faculty

Professor, Psychology, Population Health

Research design, measurement, analysis of complex surveys, cardiovascular disease risk, social relationships, health-related quality of life

Contact

Email:
Steven.Barger​@nau.edu
Call:
928-523-9619

Emery Eaves, PhD

Core faculty

Associate Professor, Anthropology

Qualitative analysis, interpretation, evaluation, chronic pain, substance use

Contact

Email:
Emery.Eaves​@nau.edu
Call:
928-523-6281

Viacheslav Fofanov, PhD

Core Faculty

Associate Director for Research and Graduate Programs, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (SICCS); Associate Professor, School of Informatics, SICCS

Statistical methods, database design, data quality, data entry, and coding, honest broker operations

Contact

Email:
Viacheslav.Fofanov​@nau.edu
Call:
928-523-7664

Amy Gelatt, CHES

Research Coordinator, Center for Health Equity Research

Environmental determinates of health, environmental justice, health promotion and education, impact of greenspace on mental and emotional health, sustainable communities, structural determinates of health

Contact

Email:
Amy.Gelatt​@nau.edu

Lisa Jane Hardy, PhD

Core Faculty

Associate Professor, Anthropology Director, Social Science Community Engagement Lab

Research Design, Community Based and Community Engaged Participatory Research, Raid Response Research and Action, Qualitative Methods, Knowledge Dissemination, Minority Health, Health Equity

Contact

Email:
Lisa.Hardy​@nau.edu
Call:
928-523-0735

Michael Petillo, MS

Program Coordinator, Senior, Center for Health Equity Research

Applied Indigenous Methodologies, Qualitative and Mixed Methods, Data Visualization, Culturally Responsive and Equitable Evaluation, and Community Based Participatory Research

Contact

Email:
Michael.Petillo​@nau.edu

Joseph Mihaljevic, PhD

Core Faculty

Assistant Professor, Ecological and Epidemiological Informatics, SICCS

Modeling infectious disease, virus epidemiology, statistical analysis

Contact

Email:
Joseph.Mihaljevic​@nau.edu
Call:
928-523-5125

 


Mark Remiker, MPH

Research Coordinator, Senior, Center for Health Equity Research

Mixed Methods, Medical Record Abstraction, Database Development, Survey Development, Psychometrics, Basic Descriptive and Inferential Statistics, and Program Expertise in REDCAp, Qualtrics, SPSS

Contact

Email:
Mark.Remiker​@nau.edu
Call:
928-523-4295

Indrakshi Roy, PhD

Core Faculty

Assistant Professor, Department of Health Sciences, Center for Health Equity Research

Health Economist and Health Services Researcher, Medicare data, causal analysis, multilevel regression, instrumental variable, power analysis, SAS, STATA and R

Contact

Email:
Indrakshi.Roy​@nau.edu

Heidi Wayment, PhD

Core Faculty

Professor, Psychological Sciences

Survey and experimental research design, SPSS, EQS, R. Psychosocial predictors of health behavior and coping with stressful life events

Contact

Email:
Heidi.Wayment​@nau.edu
Call:
928-523-0575

 


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Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative
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Applied Research & Development
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Flagstaff, Arizona 86011
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