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Occupational therapy master’s alum Kaela Dewan talks about the lessons she has learned from the community at Eastern Washington University as a student and as a scholarship recipient. “Whether it is in ways that are big or small,” says Kayla, “I have found that being a part of something bigger than yourself is always rewarding.…

Guillermo Mendez, Dilli Gautam, and Jessica R. Ochoa were recently granted a national award for their research project “Successful Recruitment and Retention Strategies for a Workforce in Long-Term Care” by the American College of Health Care Administrators (ACHCA). ACHCA held the 2018 Convocation and Exposition granting opportunities for students to present their research in the…

A group of Eastern Washington University faculties and students from the Master of Public Health (MPH) and Master of Social work (MSW) program attended 2018 Aging in America conference in San Francisco. At the conference, Anna Tresidder, the MPH program director presented her research on the topic “Aging and Independent in Rural Places: A Photovoice…

The MPHA has recently elected new officers. From left to right in the below picture, the new officers are: Kathy O’Neill, Secretary Johnny Aldan, President Luis Vela, Vice President and Treasurer Adrian Mobley, Public Relations Officer and Event Coordinator

For nearly four years, Eastern Washington University graduate students have been working side-by-side with faculty at the University Hearing and Speech Clinic, learning how to help restore the voices of those with Parkinson’s disease. Students in the communication sciences and disorders (CMSD) program and faculty work with patients in the LOUD Crowd group, a maintenance therapy…

The EWU Dental Hygiene Department participated in their eighth consecutive Vets’ Day this year, providing a low-cost dental services to veterans. For the third year, the event included the involvement from the inter-professional teams from the College of Health Science and Public Health, who treated 45 veterans with dental care, including health screenings for 12…

On November 7, 2017, Ryan Douse, Jessica R. Ochoa, Brendon Winston, and Dilli Gautam, Masters of Public Health Students, entered the EWU Eagle’s Nest Pitch Contest and took first place! The contest allowed them to pitch our innovative public health technology tool aimed at addressing the opioid crisis impacting our communities locally and nationally. As…

Eastern Washington University, working in partnership with Juan N. Corpas University (Bogotá, Colombia), has been chosen as a 100,000 Strong in the Americas Innovation Fund grant winner. The alliance, which involves EWU’s Office of Global Initiatives and the College of Health Science and Public Health, will give students from the two universities the opportunity to…

Eastern Washington University in partnership with Providence Health Care, the Empire Health Foundation, and Kaiser Permanente hosted the “Making Mental Health Essential Health: A Community Health Forum on January 31st. Over 1300 community members attended the event and had access to community vendors providing resources for mental and behavioral health. The Honorable Patrick J. Kennedy,…

EWU’s College of Health Science and Public Health (CHSPH) and St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute have created a collaborative out-patient therapy clinic program located in the recently opened Spokane Teaching Health Clinic (STHC). The emphasis on this program focuses on student learning opportunities within a clinical environment that provides excellence in patient care to meet the…