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Social Work Students in Transformative ‘SOCIAL WORK Bootcamp’
As Greensboro’s innovative day center for those experiencing homelessness, the Interactive Resource Center (IRC) offers free, no-questions-asked health services and counseling.
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Spartans Lead COVID-19 Community Health Outreach
North Carolina and the Piedmont Triad region have a history of successful refugee resettlement dating back to the early 1980s, making it a natural laboratory for examining the health and integration of ethnically and linguistically diverse newcomer communities.
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GRANT AWARDED FOR STUDY ON KINSHIP CAREGIVER HEALTH
Dr. Tyreasa Washington studies African American children and families, particularly those involved in kinship care – when a member of a family cares for children that are not their own but may be grandchildren, godchildren, or otherwise related.
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Health Disparities Research Institute Scholar
Dr. Yarneccia D. Dyson has been selected as a 2020 Health Disparities Research Institute Scholar and will attend this virtual event in early August.
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PROFESSOR AWARDED $100,000 GATES FOUNDATION GRANT
Dr. Jocelyn R. Smith Lee has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for her project “Disrupting Dehumanizing Narratives of Black Men in Poverty.” Smith Lee is one of just 28 grantees across the nation to be selected as part of the Gates Foundation’s Voices for Economic Opportunity Grand Challenge.
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HHS Researchers Collaborate to Fight Childhood Obesity
The United States has an obesity epidemic, and the impact is expanding. According to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, approximately 40 percent of American adults are obese. That struggle comes with increased risks for a host of illnesses.
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MINORITY FACULTY RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
In the School of Health and Human Sciences, we remain committed to actively engaging in challenging those systems that engage in systemic and structural racism and violence against those who are marginalized, disenfranchised, and oppressed. Our dedicated and experienced minority faculty are nationally and internationally recognized.