College of Health and Human Services

A new study led by UNC Charlotte public health researchers is highlighting the progression of COVID-19 in urban and rural counties and revealing geographic disparities in the prevalence of the virus.

Gov. Roy Cooper has appointed UNC Charlotte social work professor Sonyia Richardson, Ph.D., to a statewide task force on health inequities.

With the approaching retirement of Jane Neese, senior associate dean of academic affairs, Dean Catrine Tudor-Locke has announced a series of transitions in leadership at the UNC Charlotte College of Health and Human Services.Neese has provided Tudor-Locke with formal notice of her intent to retire Sept. 1, 2021.

Graduate nursing student Leslie Castillo Navia blends passion and service to fight HIV as Charlotte’s 2020 ‘Let’s Stop HIV Together’ ambassador.

Social gerontologist Cynthia Hancock, Ph.D., interviewed her 85-year-old mother, Joyce Riffe, about how COVID-19 has affected her life. The two talked about Riffe’s own experiences with polio and her mother’s surviving the Spanish Influenza pandemic in 1918.Hancock, a sociology professor, directs the gerontology program at UNC Charlotte. She has been on the faculty since 2002 and currently teaches classes on aging and the life course, families and aging and sociology of aging. 

UNC Charlotte public health professor Michael Dulin has been selected for one of the nation’s most prestigious fellowships in health policy.

Former senior lecturer of Kinesiology Roy Fielding died Friday, May 15.Fielding, who had been a fixture at UNC Charlotte from 1977 through his recent retirement, served as lecturer, aquatics director and senior lecturer in the Department of Kinesiology. UNC Charlotte’s Belk Gym Pool was named “The Roy R. Fielding Aquatic Center” in his honor.

In nearly 11 years working as a nurse at Regional Medical Center in San Jose, California, Christy Murray Stromska ’07 ’09 has seen it all.

As people across the country participate in an increasing number of video calls per week, a sense of “video chat fatigue” is setting in for many. Sonyia Richardson, clinical associate professor of Social Work, recently discussed the phenomenon for an article published by wellandgood.com.

NCAA grant helps launch project to help athletes manage school and sports.