WSU sociologist and IREACH researcher Anna Zamora-Kapoor is studying how artificial intelligence and machine learning could help improve cancer survival outcomes among the Pacific Northwest’s rural Hispanic population.
Michael McDonell, PhD, and Katherine Hirchak, PhD, worked with researchers across the country to examine the rate at which fentanyl-involved deaths included the co-use of stimulant drugs, such as methamphetamine and cocaine.
The Spring 2024 issue of Washington State Magazine features a four-part series exploring the issues of substance use and addiction research. The articles feature several researchers in the WSU Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine.
The WSU Insider compiled a list of Washington State University studies that garnered the most attention from news media in 2023. One College of Medicine study made it into the top 10 and six others made the overall list.
Even small differences in the availability of urban green and blue spaces may make a difference according to the WSU College of Medicine study, which is authored by Solmaz Amiri, IREACH assistant professor, and Adithya Vegaraju, fourth-year medical student.
As part of a state-supported pilot project, a team of researchers in the WSU colleges of nursing and medicine will spend the next year studying health outcomes at Maddie’s Place, a newly opened, Spokane-based transitional care nursery that provides care and support for drug-exposed babies and moms.
After spending 10 years working in child welfare in Alaska, Jessica Saniguq Ullrich, PhD, knew she needed to do more. Now a researcher in the WSU College of Medicine’s Institute for Research and Education to Advance Community Health (IREACH), she is working on tribal school development, language revitalization, and intergenerational health in her home community of Nome, Alaska.
A Washington State University project to enhance recruitment of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) people into clinical trials has received $250,000 for a one-year pilot study.
The study, authored by a WSU College of Medicine research associate, found families that participated in the WIC program were much less likely to use potentially unsafe infant feeding practices during the shortage than income-eligible families that did not participate.
A series of culturally tailored workshops designed to provide education on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias have drawn the participation of more than 1,000 Native elders from across the United States in the last two years.