Media contact: Shannon Thomason, thomason@uab.edu
Angela Stowe, Ph.D.
UAB Student Affairs
Director of Student Counseling Services
Chair of the UAB Suicide Prevention Leadership and Implementation team
Areas of expertise:
- College mental health
- Mental health support for LGBTQ youth and college students
- Suicide prevention
- Wellness promotion and resiliency training
As director of Student Counseling Services, Stowe has advocated for increased mental health services on campus and grown services at UAB over the past eight years. In 2015, she started the Collegiate Recovery Program to support students in recovery and help them reach their professional and academic goals. Stowe led the task force to develop the UAB Cares Suicide Prevention Initiative and worked with students to create the B Well UAB app. Stowe’s professional service has focused largely on advocating for safe spaces in schools for LGBTQ youth and college students. Through her leadership, UAB Student Health and Wellness established a multidisciplinary Gender Transition team and became the first institution in the state of Alabama to provide students with access to integrated care for gender transition services.
Media apperances:
- These young Americans created apps to help address mental health crisis among peers, ABC News
- UAB-created mental health app B Well puts wellness in students’ hands, Alabama News Center
- UAB sees 114 percent increase in students seeking counseling services, ABC 33/40
- For young adults, the pandemic’s effects on mental health can be life-threatening, Alabama Political Reporter
- Mental health kits bring stressed students tea and comfort, Inside Higher Ed
- UAB offers support for students recovering from drug addiction, The Birmingham Times
- UAB encouraging Mental Health Wellness with mindfulness and new app, WBRC