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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…

Eastern Washington University is hosting an intensive summer workshop for people working to manage a stuttering disorder, July 9-23, at the University Hearing and Speech Clinic on the EWU Spokane Campus. The Successful Stuttering Management Program (SSMP) program was developed 52 years ago by Emeritus Professor Dorvan Breitenfeldt, and has been utilized at Eastern since…

Two programs in the College of Health Science and Public Health have built a community partnership with Excelsior Youth Center to help EWU students learn while helping the organization in return. CHSPH’s undergraduate health services administration (HSA) program and graduate occupational therapy (OT) program have formed a partnership with Excelsior, a school and specialty medical…

Rebecca Troutt is studying communication disorders and is member of the ROTC program at EWU. Her favorite part of ROTC is the family and support system she’s created with the people that are in it with her.