Each spring, the WSU Spokane campus community recognizes incredible faculty, staff, and students who go above and beyond their normal duties, demonstrate outstanding leadership, and serve as outstanding ambassadors for WSU Spokane, both on campus and within the community.
The WSU Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine is credited with finding long-term solutions to providing access to quality health care for all Washingtonians in a new PBS Crosscut article.
Getting dementia diagnosed can be a long and difficult process for anyone, but some may face additional challenges based on race or ethnicity and where they live, according to a study led by WSU IREACH researchers.
Exposure to several combinations of toxic atmospheric pollutants may be triggering asthma symptoms among children, a recent analysis suggests.
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.
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.
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.
Cole Allick, PhD, a research manager and outreach liaison for IREACH, graduated in August with his doctorate in Indigenous health from the University of North Dakota. He was part of the program’s inaugural class, which was featured by CNN.
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.
