Employing the healing power of animals to improve human health and wellbeing is a natural fit for the profession of nursing. Nurses have long been at the forefront of providing holistic, innovative, non-pharmacological interventions in health promotion and symptom alleviation, including animal-assisted interventions for patients of all ages.
Assistant Professor Kaipeng Wang works to understand how social determinants such as discrimination contribute to health and mental health disparities among ethnic minorities and immigrants, particularly older adults.
University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work PhD student Andrew Steward is exploring the impacts of ageism on psychosocial health.
University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work Assistant Professor Erin Harrop advances awareness of weight stigma and discrimination in social work.
Students in the MSW@Denver online MSW program can practice their therapeutic skills in the Virtual Field Experience course.
U.S. News & World Report has ranked the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work as No. 11 among the nation’s top social work MSW programs.
Associate Professor Lisa Reyes Mason will serve as associate dean for academic affairs at the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work.
The North Colorado Health Alliance’s Colorado Opioid Synergy Larimer and Weld project (CO-SLAW) continues its mission to expand and enhance access to medication-assisted treatment (MAT) services for people with opioid use disorders (OUD) in Larimer and Weld Counties.
