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Contact RIC Support

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

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Research Infrastructure Core

Research Infrastructure Core (RIC) of the Southwest Heath 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 RIC include helping health equity projects, programs and affiliated investigators to acquire, develop, implement and disseminate cutting-edge interdisciplinary research methods and emerging technologies.

RIC faculty and staff provide coordinated research design, methodological expertise, informatics, and statistical support for the primary and secondary goals of each of the SHERC cores and projects. RIC also provides research infrastructure support to other NAU faculty and community partners engaged in health equity collaborative research.

RIC structure includes:
Technical Assistance Group
RIC core faculty and staff have a broad range of expertise and are available to assist with pilot projects and health equity research efforts across NAU. The Technical Assistance Group can provide assistance with your research projects from research design, through methodological details, and statistical support for projects aligning with the primary and secondary goals of each of the SHERC cores and objectives.

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

RIC 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. NAU faculty, staff, and external content experts will provide training 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 SHERC events page for a list of upcoming events.

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

RIC Infrastructure 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.

RIC 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. At least 50% of the costs should come from matching funds.

Please submit your request using the RIC Equipment Support Request Form 

Additionally, the RIC team has ccompiled a list of publicly available health-related electronic databases that NAU faculty can query in order to conduct their own secondary data analysis.

Researchers can review descriptions and access these databases using the RIC publicly available data table.

Enhancing Interinstitutional Collaboration
We continue to enhance research at NAU through inter-institutional collaboration. RIC strengthens external interdisciplinary research partnerships to strategically build NAU research infrastructure in health equity-related research.

Specifically, RIC 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 Infrastructure Core—Our team

Robert T. Trotter, II, PhD

Research Infrastructure Core 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

Catherine Propper

Research Infrastructure Core Co-Lead

Co-Principal Investigator, Research Project #2

Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

Contact

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

Monica Lininger, PhD, LAT, ATC

Core Faculty

Associate Professor, Physical Therapy & Athletic Training

Psychometrics, questionnaire 

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, Qualtrics

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

Assistant Professor, Anthropology

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

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

Lisa Jane Hardy, PhD

Core Faculty

Associate Professor, Anthropology

Medical Anthropology, Community Based Participatory Research, Raid Response Research and Evaluation, Qualitative Methods, Minority Health, Social Justice

Contact

Email:
Lisa.Hardy​@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

Program Coordinator, Senior, Center for Health Equity Research

Survey Development, Psychometrics, Basic Descriptive and Inferential Statistics, and Program Expertise in REDCAp, Atlas.ti, Qualtrics, SPSS

Contact

Email:
Mark.Remiker​@nau.edu

Indrakshi Roy, PhD

Core Faculty

Biostatistician, Center for Health Equity Research

Health Economist. Large Data Sets Analysis, Propensity  Scores, Power Analysis, and Program Expertise in STATA, R and SAS

Contact

Email:
Indrakshi.Roy​@nau.edu

Katharine Sanderson, MA

Program Coordinator, Senior, Center for Health Equity Research

Evaluation, Logic Models, Qualitative/Mixed Methods, and Program Expertise in Nvivo and Qualtrics

Contact

Email:
Katharine.Sanderson​@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

For further information, please complete our contact form.

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Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative
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Applied Research & Development
1395 S Knoles Dr.
Flagstaff, Arizona 86011
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Flagstaff, Arizona 86011
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