Center for Healthy Communities

Boonshoft School of Medicine seminar to focus on barriers to learning

Bonnshoft School of Medicine White Hall

The Dec. 8 seminar will provide professionals with information about individual and environmental factors that affect learning in children and adults in the Miami Valley. Continue reading

Community health worker links patients with services

Michelle Nelson, a community health worker at Wright State Physicians Family Medicine, helps patients daily by connecting them to additional health and social services available in the community. Continue reading

Boonshoft School of Medicine associate professor contributes to research on traumatic brain injury

Wright State Boonshoft School of Medicine researcher part of a team that concluded a history of traumatic brain injury is associated with the development of neurological and psychiatric illnesses. Continue reading

Boonshoft School of Medicine Center for Healthy Communities marks 25th anniversary with yearlong celebration

Wright State’s Center for Healthy Communities works in partnership with numerous Greater Dayton organizations to improve the health of the community. Continue reading

Seminar to address domestic sex trafficking

The Boonshoft School of Medicine and the Ohio Statewide Area Health Education Centers Region IV will hold a seminar, “Protecting Our Community: Understanding Domestic Sex Trafficking,” on Sept. 22. Continue reading

Boonshoft School of Medicine Center for Healthy Communities announces 2015 Health Promotion Program Awards

Medical-Legal Partnership for Children and Montgomery County Project DAWN receive 2015 Health Promotion Program Awards. Continue reading

Dayton area heroin crisis is topic of June 19 seminar

Seminar will cover the physiological aspects of addiction, impact of heroin addiction on the community and efforts and resources to address the heroin crisis. Continue reading

Boonshoft School of Medicine seminar to focus on diabetes in Montgomery County

“Montgomery County Health Disparities: Tackling the Diabetes Epidemic” seminar will held March 10 Madison Lakes Learning and Conference Center in Dayton. Continue reading

Boonshoft School of Medicine to hold forums on Medicaid, Affordable Care Act

Community forums on Medicaid expansion and the Affordable Care Act marketplace will be held this winter in Dayton. Continue reading

Boonshoft School of Medicine offers seminar on Social Security

Social Security form

Wright State Center for Healthy Communities HealthLink to present information about Social Security disability process at Dec. 9 seminar. Continue reading