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Participants in a recent UNC Charlotte study on gender identity shifts during the COVID-19 pandemic were given the opportunity to share their personal stories through images not just interviews.      Using a method called photo elicitation where photographs are used to stimulate culturally relevant reflections during interviews, Epidemiology and Community Health Associate Professor Jessamyn Moxie and […]

UNC Charlotte’s Board of Trustees, along with Chancellor Sharon L. Gaber, recently visited the College of Health and Human Services to view the college’s virtual anatomy and dissection labs and Learning Resource Center. The board members got an up-close look at the high-tech simulation methods offered to students in nursing, exercise science and other programs. […]

Sarah Tesar, a Master of Social Work student in the College of Health and Human Services, won the People’s Choice Award at the 2024 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. The 3MT competition challenges students to succinctly summarize their research to a general audience in three minutes or less. This year’s competition, sponsored by the Thomas L. Reynolds Center […]

Liyah Jones is just getting started. This month she will receive a Bachelor of Science in Public Health from the College of Health and Human Services and will be right back to start phase two of her academic journey to a career in dermatology. “I’ve always wanted to go into medicine,” Jones said. “And the […]

If Justin Spencer could go back in time, he’d tell his freshman self: “It’s going to be okay. No matter what, you will be a nurse.” The gregarious senior who will graduate this month with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the College of Health and Human Services is heading full force into the […]

Black mothers and infants are statistically having worse health outcomes than their white counterparts. One of the goals of the Charlotte Maternal and Child Health Workgroup is to conduct crucial conversations about inequity issues such as this one and discuss solutions for improving maternal and child health broadly in the Charlotte region.         “We have the […]

Daheia Barr-Anderson and Candace Brown will provide insights during a workshop hosted by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

UNC Charlotte’s College of Health and Human Services continues to advance health equity efforts and improve health outcomes through a new partnership with the Stratford Richardson YMCA. The initiative will increase access to clinical services, behavioral health support, and health promotion and education in the West Charlotte community.  The program and the research conducted will […]

UNC Charlotte’s College of Health and Human Services hosted the 2024 NC Alliance for Health Professions Pathways Summit on October 14. The College was represented by at-large Alliance member J.P. Barfield, Ph.D., who serves as professor and chair of the College’s Applied Physiology, Health, and Clinical Sciences department.  The NC Alliance for Health Professions is […]

Published with permission from the Implementation Science Coordination Initiative, which  provides deep dives on research and findings from supplement projects funded by the National Institutes of Health as part of the Ending the HIV Epidemic in the United States initiative. HIV transmission disproportionately affects racial and ethnic minorities. In the United States, Black and African […]