This spring, four research teams completed their training through the Community-Centered Addictions Research Training Program (C-CART), a project of NAU’s Center for Community Health and Engaged Research (CHER). Designed to support students, early-career researchers, and behavioral health professionals, the program focuses on substance use disorder (SUD) prevention and treatment for minority populations across the Southwest… Read more
David “Kofi” Mensah, a student in Northern Arizona University’s interdisciplinary health doctoral program and a research assistant with Northern Arizona University’s Center for Community Health and Engaged Research, won the Wadsworth International Fellowship award through the Wenner-Gren Foundation… Read more
Northern Arizona University (NAU) student Melissa Wheeler was recently named one of 10 Rising Graduate Scholars nationwide by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education… Read more
Scholars, faculty and community partners in the Culturally Centered Addictions Research Training (C-CART) attended their first C-CART Conference on April 1 and 2. The event was held at NAU’s Native American Cultural Center on the first day… Read more
Northern Arizona University’s Center for Community Health and Engaged Research (CHER) recently received a $100,000, one-year supplemental grant to collaborate with Native Americans for Community Action, Inc. (NACA) as part of the Culturally-Centered Addictions Research Training, or C-CART program… Read more
On August 17, students who were recently accepted into the Culturally Centered Addictions Research Training or C-CART, met with their instructors for the first time. It was a hybrid experience with several of the students and instructors attending virtually… Read more
Northern Arizona University’s Center for Community Health and Engaged Research (CHER) recently received an almost $1.4 million grant to create a graduate certificate training program for practicing clinicians and doctoral students in health professions… Read more
