College of Health News

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Project BLENDS graduate collaboration to promote early childhood mental health

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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.

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UAA dental students serve up smiles for Children’s Day

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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.

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Community Partner Profile Series: Introducing Travis Hedwig

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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

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

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Alumnus Benz Guillermo finds the right fit in human services

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Human Services alumnus Benz Guillermo talks about how he found the right fit in the Department of Human Services program at the College of Health.