Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative
MENUMENU
  • About
    • Faculty
    • Staff
    • Research Centers in Minority Institutions Program
    • Advisory Committee
    • Executive Committee
  • Cores
    • Administrative Core
    • Community Engagement Core
    • Investigator Development Core
    • Recruitment Core
    • Research Capacity Core
  • Projects
    • Research Projects
    • Pilot Projects
    • Supplements
  • Community
    • Community Expert Board
    • CEC Video Series
    • Community-Campus Partnership Support
    • Fairness First Campaign
    • CEC Regional Health Equity Survey Report
  • Research Support
    • Acknowledge SHERC
    • Funding Opportunities
    • SHERC CEC Community Campus Partnership Support
    • SHERC Pilot Project Program
    • Multi-User Equipment Directory
    • RIC Methods Training Support
    • Editorial Manuscript Support
  • Publications
  • News
  • Events
    • Upcoming Events
    • Past Events
  • NAU
  • SHERC
  • Building a healthy Navajo Nation

Nicolette Teufel-Shone

Building a healthy Navajo Nation

Posted by ld583 on January 20, 2023


Healthy Diné Nation Act proves tribal sovereign nations can drive their own health policy

In an unprecedented move eight years ago, the Navajo Nation created the first-ever tax in the U.S. that supports health promotion and disease prevention through a law that collects a 2 percent tax on foods with little to no nutritional value and removes the 5 percent tax on fruits, vegetables and water.

Funding from the tax,… Read more

Filed Under: News

Collaboration and clear communication can improve health equity, researchers find

Posted by ld583 on July 13, 2022

Health Disparities

The differences in health status and disease burden (e.g., lower quality of life, financial costs, and death) exist among specific populations based on social or demographic factors such as race and income.

Social Determinants of Health

The conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age (e.g., air quality, schools, parks, jobs, housing conditions, etc.).

Health Equity

Health equity is when every person has a fair and equal opportunity to be as healthy as possible and no one is… Read more

Filed Under: News

Expanding Native Spirit

Posted by ld583 on July 11, 2022

Amanda Hunter is standing on the camera side right and leaning over her computer, which is open and on a table in front of a person. She has dark brown, straight hair and is wearing a gray sweater and jeans. Nicolette Teufel-Shone is seated at the table on the left watching the computer. She is wearing a purple turtleneck and has her gray hair pulled back. There is a person… <a href=Read more

Filed Under: News

Developing future Diné public health leaders starts with early, culturally significant exposure

Posted by ld583 on April 11, 2022

Successfully guiding Diné youth toward health and public health professions begins with two important ideas––start students in a program in high school and cultivate in them a love and understanding of their own cultural, strength-based assets.

Researchers from Diné College and Northern Arizona University explored these findings and other lessons in their recently released publication, “Engaging Native American High School Students in Public Health Career Preparation Through the Indigenous Summer… Read more

Filed Under: News

NIMHD news features SHERC’s Fairness First Campaign

Posted by ld583 on December 30, 2021

Northern Arizona University’s Fairness First Campaign: Promoting Community Health Equity

Bringing community organizations and researchers together through discussions, experiential learning, and social mixers

December 30, 2021

Carmenlita Chief, M.P.H., and Alexandra Samarron Longorio, RDN, have devoted their careers to ensuring that every person, especially those from the most underrepresented and… Read more

Filed Under: News

Amanda Hunter: Investing in Indigenous Youth through Native Spirit

Posted by ld583 on November 22, 2021

Amanda Hunter’s commitment to Indigenous health equity, specifically for youth and young adults, is shaping her prolific work as the Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) postdoctoral scholar.

Her interest in developing Indigenous health equity started almost 10 years ago. After earning her bachelor’s degree in physiology, Amanda Urbina, now Hunter,… Read more

Filed Under: News

Posts navigation

1 2 … 4 Next

Categories

Tags

ADRD Alexandra Samarron Alzheimer's and Related Dementias study Amit Kumar Amy Armstrong-Heimsoth Carmenlita Chief Carolyn Camplain Catherine Propper CCPS Center for Health Equity Research CHER CHER/SHERC 2021 newsletter CHER/SHERC newsletter Community-Campus Partnerships Community-Campus Partnership Support Community Engagement Core COVID-19 COVID-19 and health equity Dulce Jiménez Eck Doerry Emery Eaves Fairness First Fairness First podcast Health equity health equity research Health Justice Futures Heather Williamson Indrakshi Roy Julie A. Baldwin Julie Baldwin Kalvina Belin Mark Remiker Naomi Lee NAU-community partnership funding opportunities Nicolette Teufel-Shone Pilot Project Program Research Infrastructure Core research project RIC Ricky Camplain Robert Trotter Samantha Sabo SHERC SHERC National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities of the National Institutes of Health grant Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative

Archives

Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative
Location
Room 120 Building 56
Applied Research & Development
1395 S Knoles Dr.
Flagstaff, Arizona 86011
Mailing Address
PO Box 4065
Flagstaff, Arizona 86011
Email
SHERC@nau.edu
Phone
928-523-5068
Social Media
Visit us on Twitter Facebook Instagram LinkedIn