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SHERC Faculty Directory
This page includes all NAU faculty formally affiliated with SHERC through Research Projects and/or Pilot Projects.
Alisse Ali-Joseph
Co-Investigator, Administrative Supplement
Faculty Athletic Representative, Office of the President
Assistant Professor, Applied Indigenous Studies
Email: Alisse.Ali-Joseph@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-6118
Research Interests: Sports and physical activity as a vehicle for empowerment, cultural identity, health and education for American Indian people, American Indian health, wellness, and education.
Principal Investigator, SHERC
Administrative Core Lead
Recruitment Core Lead
Principal Investigator, SHERC Administrative Supplements
Executive Director, Center for Community Health and Engaged Research (CHER)
Regents’ Professor, Department of Health Sciences
Email: Julie.Baldwin@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-6566
Research Interests: Community-based participatory research, HIV/AIDS & substance abuse prevention, chronic disease prevention, diverse & rural populations
Investigator, Research Infrastructure Core
Associate Professor, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems
Email: Jarrett.Barber@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-6869
Research Interests: Statistical research design, Bayesian computational processes, spatial statistics
Investigator, Research Project
Professor, Psychological Sciences
Email: Steven.Barger@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-9619
Research Interests: Research design, population-based data analysis and cardiovascular disease
Manley Begay
Co-Investigator, Administrative Supplement
Professor, Department of Applied Indigenous Studies
Email: Manley.Begay-Jr@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-6437
Research Interests: Issues pertaining to Indigenous Nation-Building: Sovereignty, Governance, Culture, Leadership, and Economic Development.
Principal Investigator, Pilot Project
Assistant Professor, Health Sciences
Email: Ricky.Camplain@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-5165
Research Interests: Cardiovascular and chronic disease, physical inactivity and sedentary behavior, minority and rural population health, community-based participatory research, outcomes research, policy-based research, built environment, and social justice
Investigator, Research Project
Professor, Biological Sciences
Email: Greg.Caporaso@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-6845
Research Interests: Human and environmental microbiomes, bioinformatics, research software engineering, and bioinformatics education.
Angelina Castagno
Co-Investigator, Administrative Supplement
Professor, Department of Educational Leadership
Email: Angelina.Castagno@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-0258
Research Interests: Diversity and equity, race, whiteness, Indigenous education
Eck Doerry
Co-Investigator, Pilot Project, Administrative Supplement
Professor, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems
Email: Eck.Doerry@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-9377
Research Interests: Research informatics, mobile and cloud computing, groupware systems, data-driven portals, international engineering education, interdisciplinary design
Principal Investigator, Pilot Project
Co-Investigator, Administrative Supplement
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Email: Emery.Eaves@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-6281
Research Interests: Medical anthropology; qualitative & ethnographic interpretation; chronic pain & opioid use; maternal substance use; integrated healthcare
Principal Investigator, Pilot Project
Assistant Professor, College of Nursing
Email: Regina.Eddie@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-5437
Research Interests: Public Health
Principal Investigator, Pilot Project
Assistant Professor, School of Forestry
Email: Catrin.Edgeley@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-7347
Research Interests:Wildfire social science; Communities and forest management; Public land management; Social science research methods; Environmental hazards; Natural resource policy
Investigator Development Core Lead
Associate Professor, Department of Health Sciences
Email: Dirk.deHeer@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-1499
Research Interests: Community-based physical activity and health promotion programs; pediatric obesity; Tribal health policy
Principal Investigator, Research Project
Co-Investigator, Administrative Supplement
Associate Professor; School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems
Email: Viacheslav.Fofanov@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-7664
Research Interests: Statistical methods, database design, data quality, data entry, and coding, honest broker operations
Tara Furstenau
Co-Investigator, Research Project
Assistant Professor; School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems
Email: Tara.Furstenau@nau.edu
Denise Helm
Co-Investigator, Administrative Supplement
Professor, Department of Dental Hygiene
Email:Denise.Helm@nau.edu
Phone:928-523-9449
Research Interests: Student diversity, Access to higher education, American Indian students
Davis Henderson
Principal Investigator, Pilot Project and Co-Investigator, Pilot Project
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Email: Davis.Henderson@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-7495
Research Interests: Language development, language disorders, Navajo linguistics, psychometrics, speech and language development and disorders among Navajo children.
Karen Jarratt-Snider
Co-Investigator, Administrative Supplement
Chair, Applied Indigenous Studies
Associate Professor, Applied Indigenous Studies
Email: Karen.Jarratt-Snider@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-6219
Research Interests: Indigenous Environmental Justice, Tribal Environmental Management, Federal Indian Policy and Law, Tribal Administration, Indigenous Cultural and Ecotourism, Indigenous and Native American Entrepreneurship, USDA Forest Service Environmental Justice Policy, USDA Forest Service-Tribal Relations. Tribal and Indigenous Community-Based Participatory Research, Environmental Health and Indigenous Communities
Darold Joseph
Co-Investigator, Administrative Supplement
Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Specialties
Email: Darold.Joseph@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-7179
Amol Karmakar
Co-Investigator, Administrative Supplement
Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Director of Research, Sheltering Arms Institute (SAI)
Research Associate, Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center-Richmond, VA
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
Email: amol.karmarkar@vcuhealth.org
Research Interests: Health Services and Health Policy Research, Health Systems Research, Acute, Post-acute, Outpatient Care, Aging and Disability, Rehabilitation Outcomes, Quality, Efficiency, and Effectiveness of Care Evaluation, Comparative Effectiveness Research, Clinical Trials, Data Science, Secondary Data Analysis: Medicare, Medicaid, Commercial Claims, EHR, Longitudinal Survey Data
Chesleigh Keene
Co-Investigator, Administrative Supplement
Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Psychology
Email: Chesleigh.Keene@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-5321
Principal Investigator, Pilot Project
Assistant Professor, Health Sciences
Email: Olivia.Lindly@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-5155
Research Interests: Autism spectrum disorder, children with special health care needs, complementary health approaches, developmental disabilities, family-centered care, healthcare, health disparities, health literacy, maternal and child health, pediatric healthcare quality measurement, preterm birth
Co-Lead, Research Infrastructure Core
Associate Professor, Physical Therapy & Athletic Training
Email: Monica.Lininger@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-7442
Research Interests: Evaluation, measurement, research methods, applied statistics
Investigator, Research Infrastructure Core
Assistant Professor, Ecological and Epidemiological Informatics, SICCS
Email: Joseph.Mihaljevic@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-5125
Research Interests: Modeling infectious disease, virus epidemiology, statistical analysis
Co-Investigator, Administrative Supplement
Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Email: M.Nielsen@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-6512
Research Interests: Native Americans and justice, Indigenous Peoples and justice, criminal justice organizations, media and criminal justice
Co-Investigator, Diversity Supplement
Associate Professor, Kinesiology & Exercise Science, University of Hawaii, Hilo
Email: mistyp@hawaii.edu
Phone: 808-932-7114
Research Interests: Health disparities in Hawai‘i, with particular focus on Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders. Sexual and reproductive health: pelvic inflammatory disease, chlamydia, HIV/AIDS, and cesarean delivery rates.
Principal Investigator, Research Project
Co-Investigator, Administrative Supplement
Associate Research Professor, Department of Biological Sciences/Pathogen and Microbiome Institute
Email: Talima.Pearson@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-4290
Research Interests: Identification of microbial agents of disease and tracking the dissemination and transmission of these pathogens
Co-Investigator, Administrative Supplement
Assistant Professor, Health Sciences
Email: Amanda.Pollitt@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-5885
Research Interests: Social and developmental influences on sexual and gender minority health
Co-Investigator, Administrative Supplement
Chair, Physical Therapy & Athletic Training
Professor, Physical Therapy & Athletic Training
Email: Patricia.Pohl@nau.edu
Phone: 602-827-2427
Research Infrastructure Core Co-Lead
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Email: Catherine.Propper@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-1374
Research Interests: Affects of development, reproduction and behavior on environmental contaminants.
Maricruz Rivera-Hernandez
Co-Investigator, Administrative Supplement
Assistant Professor, Health Services Policy and Practice, Brown School of Public Health
Phone: 401-863-1606
Research Interests: Health disparities and healthcare issues of elderly Hispanics, disparities in post-acute care utilization, quality of post-acute care services received by elderly minority groups, including Hispanics
Co-Investigator, Administrative Supplement
The NARBHA Institute James Wurgler MD Chair of Criminal Justice and Behavioral Health, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Email: Juliette.Roddy@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-5214
Co-Investigator, Administrative Supplement
Professor, Medicine, Professor, Health Services Policy & Practice, Brown School of Public Health
Email: James_Rudolph@Brown.Edu
Research Interests: Care delivery to older patients
Community Engagement Core Co-Lead,
Co-Investigator, Administrative Supplement
Associate Professor, Health Sciences
Email: Samantha.Sabo@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-2045
Research Interests: Social and political context of chronic disease, border health, indigenous community health, Community Health Workers, social determinants of health of vulnerable populations, community-based participatory research
Co-Investigator, Administrative Supplement
Program Director, Physical Therapy Expansion Program
Associate Clinical Professor, Physical Therapy & Athletic Training
Email: Stefany.Shaibi@nau.edu
Community Engagement Core Lead,
Co-Investigator, Administrative Supplement
Associate Director, CHER
Professor, Health Sciences
Email: Nicky.Teufel@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-2058
Research Interests: Building community capacity to address health promotion in Native American communities, chronic disease prevention
Research Infrastructure Core Lead,
Co-Investigator, Administrative Supplement
Regents’ Professor, Anthropology
Email: Robert.Trotter@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-4521
Research Interests: 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
Co-Investigator, Research Project
Director of Carruthers Lab at NAU-Yuma Campus
Clinical Professor, Biology and Environmental Science
Email: Francisco.Villa@nau.edu
Research Interests: Technology in the Classroom, Environmental Health, Biochemistry of Sonoran Desert Organisms, Science Communication
Co-Investigator, Investigator Development Core,
Co-Investigator, Administrative Core
Professor, Psychological Sciences
Email: Heidi.Wayment@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-0575
Research Interests: Health psychology, self-identity, psychosocial predictors of health behavior, and coping with stressful life events using survey and experimental research design, multivariate statistics (SPSS), structural equation modeling (EQS), data science (R, text mining/text analysis), and network analysis (UCINet)
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