Spending time in nature improves mood, reduces stress and promotes better physical health. Despite the countless benefits, it has become increasingly difficult to separate ourselves from our busy schedules, electronic devices and creature comforts to spend time outside.
Dr. Marisa Giggie, assistant professor of public psychiatry and behavioral medicine in the College of Community Health Sciences, has worked with inmates in the jail since 2012. Giggie said in a typical week she sees around 20 inmates, and she has seen hundreds so far.
Dr. Alan Blum, founder and director of UA’s Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society, presented a lecture on January 28, 2016, as part of a series of lectures for the University’s OLLI Program provided by faculty from UA’s College of Community Health Sciences. Blum, the Gerald Leon Wallace, MD, Endowed Chair of Family…
The fourth annual Tuscaloosa Evening of African Film, co-sponsored by the College of Community Health Sciences, will be Saturday, Feb. 13, at the Bama Theatre in downtown Tuscaloosa. The adult program begins at 6:30 p.m. with three award-winning short films and one feature-length film. A children’s program begins at 3:30 p.m. with a live performance of African Dance by Bama…
Participants of this year’s American Heart Association’s West Alabama Heart Walk will cover 3.1 miles in support of defeating heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases. They’ll also be faced with an added challenge—to eat their vegetables. For the second year in a row, the Brussels Sprout Challenge will be part of the Heart Walk,…
New faculty and providers have joined the College of Community Health Sciences in different departments. Dr. Ed Geno is assistant professor in the College’s Department of Family Medicine. He will also work with Family Medicine Residents in minor surgery, hospital medicine and at University Medical Center, which the College operates. Geno attended medical school at…
Dr. Alan Blum, founder and director of UA’s Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society, presented a lecture on January 28, 2016, as part of a series of lectures for the University’s OLLI Program provided by faculty from UA’s College of Community Health Sciences. Blum, the Gerald Leon Wallace, MD, Endowed Chair of…
Dr. Pamela Payne-Foster, deputy director of the College’s Institute for Rural Health Research, will work with an AIDS prevention group to pilot an innovative HIV/AIDS research project in Lowndes County, Ala. The work is being funded with a $25,000 grant awarded to the AIDS Coalition of Alabama Project (ACAP) by the Elton John Foundation in…
Medical students and residents at the College who are taking UA’s new Culinary Medicine elective had their first class on January 26. The course is a partnership of the Colleges of Community Health Sciences and Human Environmental Sciences. “This is the kickoff of the first Culinary Medicine elective,” Dr. Richard Streiffer, dean of CCHS, said…
