College of Health News

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House Call: UAA/ISU Pharmacy students deliver vaccines across Anchorage

 |  Green & Gold  | 

As another flu season begins and the coronavirus pandemic continues, UAA/ISU Doctor of Pharmacy students took to the streets as part of the Alaska Assisted Living Home Immunization Program (AK ALH) to protect some of Anchorage’s most vulnerable people.

Hattie Harvey, Cary Moore, Mary Dallas Allen Read More

Project BLENDS graduate collaboration to promote early childhood mental health

 |  Matt Jardin  |  ,

Project BLENDS will develop a training model at UAA for four overlapping service disciplines in order to serve young children with high-intensity social-emotional needs and their families.

dental students providing a dental exam to a young child Read More

UAA dental students serve up smiles for Children’s Day

 |  Alaska's News Source  |  , ,

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - It was a packed house inside the University of Alaska Anchorage’s dental clinic. Friday was all about serving up smiles for the first ever Children’s Day.

Portrait of Travis Hedwig Read More

Community Partner Profile Series: Introducing Travis Hedwig

 |  At Home in the North  | 

Dr. Travis Hedwig collaborates with At Home in the North, an effort focused on advancing a contextually and culturally relevant understanding of the northern housing continuum. Travis is a cultural and medical anthropologist and is a faculty member in the Division of Population Health Sciences at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He is interested in applied health research, particularly issues of mental and behavioral health, housing and homelessness, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and other disabilities, and community health.

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Pharmacy students fan out across Anchorage to bring flu shots, COVID-19 boosters to assisted living facilities

 |  Anchorage Daily News  |  ,

Pharmacy students fan out across Anchorage to bring flu shots, COVID-19 boosters to assisted living facilities