CHHS News

UNC Charlotte’s Social Work program has swiftly grown from its origins as a concentration unit within the Department of Sociology and Anthropology into a stand-alone program that is now drawing national recognition. The program first began in the 1970s, eventually growing into a Council on Social Work Education (CSWE)-accredited Bachelor of Social Work program by […]

UNC Charlotte Public Health researchers Dr. Bill Saunders and Dr. Elizabeth Racine have partnered up with Carolinas Medical Center-NorthEast and Cabarrus County community stakeholders to develop a childhood obesity action plan. Recent numbers suggest that 23% of children in the U.S. are obese and medical care costs for this group can run into billions of […]

A publication produced by several UNC Charlotte researchers has been selected for inclusion in a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) poll of 2014 research that highlights the identification and elimination of disparities in health care. The article, titled Por Nuestros Ojos: Understanding Social Determinants of Health through the Eyes of Youth, is nominated by RWJF […]

On November 11, the College of Health and Human Services (CHHS) celebrated the dedication, integrity, and selflessness of Veterans. CHHS is committed to creating new structures and programs touching on research and outreach with an emphasis on Veterans and their families. Concerned with the well-being and seamless transition of returning veterans into degree programs, faculty […]

In August, UNC Charlotte created a food pantry to help a growing number of students who are unable to afford or find nutritious foods. Sean Langley, UNC Charlotte’s assistant director of Off-campus and Volunteer Outreach helped start the food pantry with $6,000 worth of food from Food Lion. The pantry currently provides food to over […]

As part of the “State of the Region Healthcare Summit 2014” sponsored by the Cabarrus Regional Chamber of Commerce, we presented “Childhood Obesity & Wellness Research” to business leaders in Cabarrus County. Our recently completed Action Plan developed for Carolinas Medical Center-NorthEast (CMC-NE) identified five high-priority areas for intervention: Integrate more Health/Physical Education and Nutrition […]

Dr. Scott Gordon, Chair of the Department of Kinesiology, is travelling to Shanghai, China in early November to participate in an editorial board meeting for the Journal of Sport and Health Science. While there, he will also give a seminar at the Shanghai University of Sport (SUS) entitled, “Chronic Disease in the United States: ‘Fitting […]

“Chronic illnesses, such as heart disease and diabetes have reached global epidemic proportions, and now cause more deaths than all other diseases combined”, says Dr. Mark DeHaven, the Colvard Distinguished Professor in the College of Health and Human Services at UNC Charlotte. Nowhere is this more evident than in China, where a population of 114 […]

Dr. Michael Thompson, Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences, will travel to King Saud University (KSU) in Riyadh Saudi Arabia in October 2014 to continue dialoguing with the faculty and students of KSU’s Department of Family & Community Medicine about building an accreditable master’s in public health degree program. This trip will be Dr. Thompson’s […]

Traditional health services research begins with a hypothesis based on things that are already known. The hypothesis is then tested in pilot phases with animals, single cases or small programs and, if the findings are positive, larger investments are made on the magnitude of human trials, registries or systems integration. The end goal is to […]