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Drs. Adam Hege and Martie Thompson Receive Collaboratory for Science, Policy & Solutions Grant
Dr. Adam Hege, Associate Professor of Public Health and Dr. Martie Thompson, Blue Cross NC Distinguished Professor of Public Health were awarded a grant from The Collaboratory for Science, Policy, and Solutions at UNC Chapel Hill. The $190,800 award is for their project "Understanding and Addressing Opioid Remediation Activities in Three Appalachian Counties in Western North Carolina." AppHealthCare, a local government agency and tri-county local health department serving Watauga, Ashe and Alleghany counties is currently making use of national opioid settlement funding to implement initiatives aimed at remediation activities across the three counties. In this project, an App State interdisciplinary research team (Public Health, Social Work, and Geography and Planning) along with graduate and undergraduate student research assistants, will partner with AppHealthCare and other nonprofit and FQHC entities currently working with AppHealthCare in their remediation activities.
Dr. Leah Hamilton Funded to Continue Guaranteed Income Research
Dr. Leah Hamilton continues her research on guaranteed income allocations with a 4 year, $676,000 grant from the Georgia Resilience and Opportunity Fund. This project is a phase two of her prior work on "In Your Hands." Building on the success of Phase One, this phase seeks to expand and deepen the understanding of the transformative potential of guaranteed income for low-income women in historically Black communities in Georgia. The pilot aims to enroll an additional 400 participants and extend the study duration to three years to capture long-term effects.
Drs. Battista, Christiana, & James Share Their HOPE
The HOPE Lab, Healthy Outdoor Play and Exercise, investigates the role of outdoor physical activity, exercise, and play on health, the environment, and human development with the overarching goal to promote and support outdoor physical activity, exercise, and play through interdisciplinary research. Formed through some early conversations between Drs. Becki Battista and Joy James, the seeds of an idea to look at the impact of outdoor play and exercise on health, the environment, and human development grew into a research cluster and eventually a full-on research lab. Read more in our newsletter (linked below).
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