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.
We are pleased to announce that the Institute for Research and Education to Advance Community Health (IREACH) will administratively transition from the WSU Health Sciences into the Elson S. Floyd College […]
Dr. Amanda Boyd of IREACH was recently elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences in recognition of her contributions to understanding environmental health risk communication with Indigenous and rural […]
Check out WSU Spokane’s latest “Researcher on the Rise” Q&A piece that features Solmaz Amiri, DDes, her research journey, current projects, and more. Read the Q&A piece here.
Recent media highlights Assistant Professor Solmaz Amiri’s, DDes, research on mental health. In the media Daily Mail – Living close to parks or water sources ‘may reduce risk of mental […]
Congratulations to Associate Professor Amanda Boyd, and co-director of the Institute for Research and Education to Advance Community Health (IREACH), who has been appointed to the Standing Committee on Advancing […]
WSU’s Institute for Research and Education to Advance Community Health (IREACH) and Northwest Health Education Research Outcomes Network (NW HERON) will work with our medical students to examine disparities in cancer […]
