The program is a collaboration of the UK CURE Alliance and Center for Clinical and Translational Science, who together moved the funding mechanism from concept to first award in 20 days.
After retiring as a teacher and learning she was pre-diabetic at age 57, Mary Beth Castle lost 81 pounds and began a new career as a Community Health Educator in Johnson County, Kentucky.
In recognition of the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, the CCTS shares this video that would have opened the CCTS “Our Environment, Our Health” Spring Conference, originally scheduled for April 21.
Efforts include a partnership with the CCTS's Wellness, Health, and You project, which seeks to understand how different life experiences affect health and wellbeing.
Melinda Ickes, PhD, winner of the CCTS Comic Book Challenge and former CCTS pilot recipient, was interviewed in a "WKYT Investigates"epid segment about fighting the youth vaping epidemic.
Doctors and researchers at UK's Sanders-Brown Center on Aging are looking for treatments for memory loss and Alzheimer's disease, and thousands of volunteers are playing a key role in finding answers. Volunteers at Sanders-Brown do as little as a few hours a year to help research, but the contribution is significant.
Martin County has been experiencing a water crisis for decades, with the 8th highest cost of water in the state. A participant of the CCTS Community Leadership Institute of Kentucky co-authored a report how residents, many of whom can’t afford their water bills, are impacted.
