News from the School of Nursing & Health Studies
New UW Program: Expanding Training for Health Care
Meghan Eagen-Torkko, Director of Nursing, and colleagues Molly Altman and Monica McLemore, are preparing a unique program to provide clinical opportunity for advanced practice clinicians to provide abortions and other sexual and reproductive health care.
February 15, 2023
Get to know Jason Daniel-Ulloa!
Meet Assistant Teaching Professor Jason Daniel-Ulloa! Dr. Daniel-Ulloa is currently working on a photovoice project focused on the experiences of discrimination that students faced at UWB.
January 20, 2023
Meet Stefanie Iverson Cabral!
Get to know Assistant Teaching Professor Stefanie Iverson Cabral! Dr. Iverson Cabral is teaching "Infectious Disease Detectives" this quarter.
January 13, 2023
Cavanaugh Offers Ecopsychology Courses
Read about Daniel Cavanaugh's courses on Ecopsychology and their benefit to students. The field of Ecopsychology centers on the emotional, physical, and even spiritual bonds between human beings and the Earth.
January 9, 2023
Appel Studies the “New Normal”
With a $100k grant from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, Dr. Hoa Appel used a new patient-centered approach to study how the “new normal” school environment during COVID-19 impacted student mental health in Seattle-area schools.
December 20, 2022
SNHS Announces New Program: Master of Science in Community Health & Social Justice
The School of Nursing & Health Studies is proud to announce the launch of the new Master of Science in Community Health & Social Justice! Students will explore the root causes of health inequities, promote and implement anti-racist policies and social justice through community health programming, and develop the leadership skills to serve and uplift historically marginalized communities. Classwork will be in social justice, history and ethics, research theory, advocacy, social epidemiology, inclusive health care management and related topics.
December 9, 2022
Niitsu Represents UWB at National Conference
SNHS Assistant Professor Kosuke Niitsu presented his research and represented UW Bothell at the American Psychiatric Nurses Association Annual Conference in October.
December 9, 2022
Behavioral Health in Underserved Populations in King and Snohomish Counties
Dr. Hoa Appel and Dr. Mabel Ezeonwu are working on research with an engagement award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). Community collaborators include the Latino Educational Training Institute, Cultivate South Park, and the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
October 17, 2022
Meet Miryha Runnerstrom, Assistant Professor
Get to know Assistant Professor Miryha Gould Runnerstrom. Dr. Runnerstrom joined SNHS this fall and took the time to answer a few questions for us.
October 14, 2022
Dr. Early: Be the Change
SNHS professor, Dr. Jody Early, co-edited this "timely and practical play-book that offers students the how-to skills for change-making."
October 11, 2022