Regents’ Professor Julie Baldwin, director of the Northern Arizona University Center for Community Health and Engaged Research, was elected in June to serve on the board… Read more
Baldwin appointed to Flinn Foundation board of directors
Center for Health Equity Research
Funding faculty equipment purchases is a little-known but important SHERC mission
For many Northern Arizona University researchers, the one thing that prevents them from completing groundbreaking research is the cost of equipment or programs needed to capture their data.
For the past five years, NAU’s Southwest Health Equity… Read more
Fairness First highlights Peter Friederici and NAU’s Sustainable Communities
Northern Arizona University’s Department of Sustainable Communities has been inspiring and training students to make a difference in Flagstaff and throughout Arizona in sustainability, civic engagement, interdisciplinary research and social justice work for more than 20 years.
Peter Friederici, director of Sustainable Communities… Read more
Faculty spotlight: Linnea Evans
Time is typically something that is elusive. But to Linnea Evans, quantifying the use of time is one of the keys components in identifying structural racism.
Through her innovative research, Evans, an assistant professor at Northern Arizona University’s Center for Community Health and Engaged Research (CHER) and Department of Health Sciences, is proving how racial and ethnic minoritized teens are often socially… Read more
February 2021 newsletter
Learn more about the Great Beginnings for Healthy Native Smiles project in our February 2021 newsletter:
Pivoting due to COVID leads to project’s success
A mere six months before the pandemic, Amy Armstrong-Heimsoth, associate clinical professor, NAU Department of Occupational Therapy, and her community partner Shevaun Sullivan, director of group home relations for OCJ Kids or Opportunity, Community and Justice for Kids, in Phoenix, received funding from the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative’s Community-Campus Partnership Support (CCPS) for their project.
Their plan… Read more
Student Spotlight: Alexandra Samarron Longorio
When Alexandra Samarron Longorio was in her early 20s, as a former undocumented student, she saw that attending college in the United States was an almost impossible task for undocumented students.
A first generation college student of a single mother, Samarron was determined to thrive and, along with other undocumented students, to find higher education opportunities for everyone regardless of immigration status.
The task was not easy. Each year, 98,000… Read more
SHERC researchers win APHA Rural and Environmental Research Award
Researchers from Northern Arizona University’s Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC) team recently won the 2020 Rural and Environmental Research Award for the American Public Health Association’s (APHA) Aging & Public Health Section for their work with family caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
SHERC is a grant-funded initiative of the Center for… Read more
Pilot Project Program offers proposal submission information sessions
The Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC) Pilot Project Program (PPP) recently opened the call for pilot proposals for fiscal year 2022.
Applicants are encouraged to attend one of the Information Sessions scheduled on September 1, 2–3 p.m., or September 4, 11 a.m.–noon.
For Zoom link to one of the sessions, contact Christine.Smith@nau.edu. For complete details about SHERC’s Pilot Project Program and application process, please visit the PPP website.
Summer 2020 newsletter highlights COVID-19 response
Learn more about CHER and SHERC’s response to COVID-19 in our latest newsletter:
