Interdisciplinary Center for Community Health and Wellness
The CMU Interdisciplinary Center for Community Health and Wellness is a multi-college partnership that links with community health priorities to stimulate collaborations, research and education about health and wellness for disease prevention, health promotion, health communication, quality of life improvement and related economic benefits for Michigan and beyond.
Program offerings
- Research collaborations.
- Program partnerships.
- Professional education offerings.
- Training opportunities.
- Community capacity-building initiatives focused on improving health and strengthening networks.
- Trauma-responsive communities of practice.
Professional education podcast programs
- Timely resources for professionals and the public.
- Tools and strategies to address health priorities.
- Responding to ACEs: Resources for Resilience available for continuing education credit and for listening public.
- Effects of COVID-19 on Children, Caregivers, and Health Providers.
Mission
The proposed mission for the Interdisciplinary Center for Community Health and Wellness at Central Michigan University will be to stimulate and promote basic and applied research and education about health and wellness for disease prevention, health promotion, health communication, quality of life improvement and related economic benefits for Michigan and beyond.
Goals
- Establish and sustain CMU as a model for health and wellness education.
- Promote scholarship, interdisciplinary research, service, and applied practice in wellness-related academic disciplines through external partnerships and collaborations.
- Engage students in the community to improve health outcomes and promote inter-professional learning networks.
- Collaborate with the community to benefit the health and well-being of all citizens of CMU's region, Michigan and the nation.
