The BC – NiCE study was developed to promote breast and cervical screening in the state of Alabama for Black women.

With more than 3,300 residents living in East Lake, Live HealthSmart Alabama hopes to encourage a healthier lifestyle by providing safe spaces for them to get outside.

The CLA was made possible with support from Coca-Cola United, whose generous donation of $250,000 funded LHSA’s pilot academy.

UAB researchers say the presented data indicates that a younger age and higher HbA1c at baseline predict early treatment failure and point to the need for more aggressive initial treatment in these patients.

Participants between the ages of 18 and 60 who received peer coaching showed significant reduction in systolic blood pressure.

As one of only five universities selected, UAB joins the NIH’s first major program to address how structural and institutional factors of persistent poverty relate to cancer.

The future has much potential as the REACH Up and Out program hopes to continue to make an impact on the lives of Black women in the Deep South.

Live HealthSmart Alabama is continuing to make good health simple with its completion of the new Bush Hills Connection Complex and Urban Garden.

The Healthy Happy Kids program focuses on a different health and physical activity topic each week, encouraging children to make healthier choices.

The designated partners have shown their commitment to their employees by promoting a healthy lifestyle. They encourage employees to take physical activity breaks, offer tips for healthy eating, host health and wellness sessions for team members, and more.

UAB experts provide ways seniors can take and maintain control of their health in several areas of wellness.

Live HealthSmart Alabama has taken its signature keys — healthy eating, prevention and wellness, physical activity, and education — to create and implement initiatives at all levels within the institution.

The study concluded that participants were hesitant to receive the COVID-19 vaccine due to mistrust, fear and lack of information.

The NIH grant creates Multiple Chronic Disease Centers around the nation to target chronic disease in minority populations.

Record $95 million Heersink lead gift to advance strategic growth and biomedical innovation.

Included in the phase one improvements in the Kingston community is a new mobile market bringing fresh food to the neighborhood.

As the country has grappled with an opioid crisis and with COVID-19, a third crisis has brewed. Suicide is now the 10th leading cause of death in the United States.

This first-of-its-kind study aims to address this information gap by examining total net worth in conjunction with five components of wealth.

Fouad’s winning proposal is a comprehensive approach to fixing Alabama’s complex health problems and includes 90 partners on her team from government, business, education and more.

The clinic is an initiative of Building Healthy Communities, a project of the UAB Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center