Requests
- Request for TAG/ADAMS access
- External workshop request form
- Equipment Support Request Form
- RCC Mailing List and Research Interests
Resources
Contact RCC Support
The Research Capacity Core (RCC) of the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC) supports health research efforts university-wide through their technical assistance group, methodological education workshop program, and infrastructure enhancement program. This includes helping health equity projects, programs and affiliated investigators in interdisciplinary research methods and emerging technologies.
Scientific Support Accordion Closed
The Technical Assistance Group (TAG) is now housed within the newly founded CHER TAG Service Center.
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 for health equity-related projects. Requests involving health research in social, biomedical, behavioral, or clinical studies may have services covered through RCC funding.
Education and Training Accordion Closed
This methodological workshop program includes opportunities for individual investigators and multidisciplinary groups to acquire cutting-edge methods and research protocols through attending internal and external workshops.
Internal Workshops
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.
External Workshops
RCC also has limited support for faculty to attend external methodological workshops, trainings, or conferences 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.
Equipment and Software Accordion Closed
Through the Capacity Enhancement 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.).
Publicly Available Data
The RCC team has compiled a list of publicly available health-related electronic databases available to NAU faculty for their own secondary data analysis.
Enhancing Interinstitutional Collaboration
We continue to build research infrastructure in health equity-related research at NAU through interinstitutional collaboration. 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). Also see American Indian and Alaska Native Research in the Health Sciences: Critical Considerations for the Review of Applications . 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 federal and state laws and scientific best practices, visit the External Data Use Agreements page.
Please review the NAU Data Security Guidelines prior to any data use or collection.
How to Acknowledge RCC
If RCC or the TAG service center supported your research and you plan to publish your work, please note us in the acknowledgements with the language below.
The authors gratefully acknowledge the use of the Research Capacity Core and Technical Assistance Group Service Center support and facilities of the SHERC at Northern Arizona University (U54MD012388).
For further information, please complete our contact form.