Department of Health and Community Studies

Western Washington University’s Palliative Care Institute and the Department of Health and Community Studies in the university’s Woodring College of Education will offer a new minor in Palliative Care starting next fall.

According to Marie Eaton of the Palliative Care Institute,…

Dear WWU students,

We are excited to announce that the 15th Annual Western Regional Global Health Conference is going to be held at Western on April 26-28, 2019. The theme this year is ‘Criminalization of the Body’ and our keynote speaker is Festus Kisa, an LGBTQ+ activist from Kenya.…

Western Washington University Professor in the Department of Health and Community Studies Sondra Cuban was awarded a Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program in August to research her project, “The Mobilities of Immigrant Women.”

Cuban taught at the Universidad de la Frontera and she…

Joining Woodring in the 2017-18 academic year are three new Health and Community Studies faculty members who are assigned to Western’s growing Registered Nurse-to-Bachelor of Science Nursing Program. In addition, the Elementary Education Program adds a new member who also holds a half-time…

Devyani Chandran and Hope Corbin, assistant professors in Western's Department of Health and Community Studies, had a paper published recently in the Journal of Social Work in End-Of-Life and Palliative Care. The article, "An Ecological Understanding of Caregiver Experiences in…

Western Washington University’s Trula Nicholas is one of five 2016 recipients of the Representative Timm Ormsby Award for Faculty Citizenship.

Other recipients are Central Washington University’s Elvin Delgado, Eastern Washington…

The Department of Human Services and Rehabilitation at Western Washington Unviersity plans to change its name to the Department of Health and Community Studies effective fall 2015.

The change is being made to better identify the shared values and characteristics of the department's…