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.
A $1.3 million grant will enable WSU researchers, including an assistant professor in the College of Medicine, to study how a training program originally developed for law enforcement can help health care workers recognize their unconscious biases.
A susceptibility to gain weight may be written into molecular processes of human cells, a Washington State University study indicates.
Researchers in the WSU Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine’s Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology are using artificial intelligence (AI) technology in clinical exercise testing.
The study by WSU College of Medicine researchers on abortion facility access continues to reach new audiences.
Spokane-based Appiture Biotechnologies, founded by WSU College of Medicine Assistant Professor Georgina Lynch, PhD, CCC-SLP, was recently awarded a $25,000 grant to advance its mission.
