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November 2022: UNM TREE Center Presents at APHA Conference
November 2022: TREE Center Open House
The UNM HS Center of Excellence for Transdisciplinary Research, Equity and Engagement (TREE) Center received funding from the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities in 2017 as a National Research Center of Excellence dedicated to training under-represented minority scholars in health equity interventions with community partners. Now, with over 45 faculty affiliates across 13 disciplines and 19 pilot projects and two major research projects, the TREE Center, for the first time, has dedicated safe space to build a community of practice and hub for participatory team science.
September 2021: TREE Center Staff Promotions & Understanding the COVID-19
August 2021: Critical Incidences Experienced by Undocumented Young Adults
July 2021: Innovating from Community-Based Participatory Research Processes
June 2021: Racism is pervasive in the production of knowledge
April 2021: Empowering Asian Immigrant Families, Hispanic Adolescent Mental Behavioral Health
February 2021: What Is Your Street Race?, Nourishing Generosity, Community Trust and Research Engagement
January 2021: Truth, Racial Healing and Social Justice, How Does Research Inform Policy?
December 2020: Antiracism Framework in Health Equity Research, Introducing New Additions to Our Team
October 2020: Effects of COVID-19 Policies on Underserved Communities, Social-Structural Determinants of Mental Health and Suicide
September 2020: Historical Trauma, Microaggressions, and COVID-19
August 2020: Year 4 TREE Center IDC Pilot Projects
July 2020: The Equity in Policy Institute, Effect of COVID-19 on Native American Communities
June 2020: Mental Health, Covid-19 and Cultural Interconnectedness
April 2020: A Path Forward: Social Justice, A Thread that Weaves Us Together and Message from the NIH Office of Extramural Research
March 2020: 2019 Excellence in Research Awarded to Dr. Cacari Stone, Immigrant Well-being Project, and Field Trip to Pueblo of San Felipe
February 2020: The TREE Center Pilots Health Equity Interventions with Communities and Engaging with the State Legislature at UNM Day 2020
January 2020: Events & Resources
November 2019: November is Native American Heritage Month and TREE Center Scholars Shine at Recent Freedom and Justice Conference
September 2019: TREE Faculty Honored with 2019 NM Humanitarian Award and Well-being as a Multidimensional Concept
August 2019: “Treating immigrants like criminals has a long history in the United States" and Alcohol Related Deaths in New Mexico 2013-2017
July 2019: Women Leading Change in Academia: Breaking the Glass Ceiling, Cliff, and Slipper and NIMHD Director’s Statement in Support of Diverse and Inclusive Speaking Panels
June 2019: "Project Supporting Maternity - SuM" and Health Equity & LGBTQ+ Rights
May 2019: Pilot Research Study Projects: "Developing Community Partnerships Through Research to Define Community Well-Being from a Diné-centered Perspective with Three (Diné) Navajo communities in New Mexico" and "Designing a Group Navigation Model for Latina Women”
April 2019: CEDC Team takes Lessons Learned from our Community Partners Across the State to Inform our Upcoming TREE Pilot Projects
February 2019: Using Cultural Knowledge to Improve Community Behavioral Health Outcomes and Anna, Age Eight Institute
December 2018: CEDC Team Travels Across the State
November 2018: Jonathan Mann Health and Human Rights Annual Lecture and Celebrating 40 Years of the Indian Child Welfare Act, Alcohol Research Group (ARG) Collaborates with BrightOutcome to Create Multilingual Database
October 2018: "The Power of Mentoring, and How Universities Can Confront Institutional Barriers Facing Junior Researchers of Color" and 2019 Yerby Fellowship
September 2018: The Power of Mentoring, and How Universities Can Confront Institutional Barriers Facing Junior Researchers of Color
August 2018: Promotions: Lorenda Belone, PhD, MPH and Kimberly R. Huyser, PhD, Family Belonging in Early Childhood and Dr. Deborah Altschul and Team are Moving Evidence for State Behavioral Health Systems Change
July 2018: UNM Junior Faculty and Community Partners Awarded TREE Center Pilot Projects and Thomas Chávez, PhD was selected as a 2018 Health Disparities Research Institute (HDRI) Scholar!
UNM Transdisciplinary Research, Equity and Engagement Center for Advancing Behavioral Health (TREE Center)
1011 Las Lomas Rd NE
Albuquerque, NM 87102
MSC07-4265
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
NIMHD Grant #U54 MD004811-10
Office: 505-243-6803
Director and Principal Investigator
Lisa Cacari Stone, PhD, MS, MA (ella y suya/ she, her and hers)
lcacari-stone@salud.unm.edu
Email: treecenter@unm.edu
