Working in service: WVU embedded in fabric of West Virginia communities | https://wvutoday.wvu.edu/
Working in service: WVU embedded in fabric of West Virginia communities | https://wvutoday.wvu.edu/
Working in service: WVU embedded in fabric of West Virginia communities
In West Virginia’s hills and hollows, its larger cities along interstates and smaller communities on country roads, at ground levels and from broader 365-degree views, West Virginia University students, faculty and staff are working each day in service to the Mountain State.
“West Virginia University does not exist without West Virginia and vice versa,” President Gordon Gee said. “Service to the state is built into our DNA. It is a charge our students embrace when they become Mountaineers and you can see the results of their work, and the work of our faculty and staff members, statewide.”
Health and well-being
Service is the driving force for WVU Health Sciences, where the next generation of the Mountain State’s health professionals are being trained to conduct innovative research and provide patient-centered care with the goal of creating happier, healthier and safer communities.
“We all want to help people and we all want to make the world better,” Dr. Clay Marsh, chancellor and executive dean for Health Sciences, said. “The big focus we have at WVU and on our Health Sciences campuses is solving real problems for the people in our state and beyond. As we balance disease-based care with promoting health and well-being, we are trying to discover solutions for how we can help people stay healthy and high-performing for their whole lives.”
With a central office located in Charleston and an extended reach into 50 counties, the goal of West Virginia Area Health Education Centers is to improve the overall health of communities by developing an interprofessional workforce that is prepared to address the health needs of rural and underserved communities.
MUSHROOM, the Multidisciplinary UnSheltered Homeless Relief Outreach of Morgantown, is a service program bringing together medical, nursing, dental, public health, social and other health professional volunteers for “street rounds,” providing care through food, water, clothing and basic medical intervention.
In the College of Applied Human Sciences, the Center for ActiveWV is focused on creating a healthier West Virginia by improving physical activity levels among state residents of all ages through collaboration, research, policy and practice. See the Center’s WV Physical Activity Plan.
And the West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute, through its community engagement and outreach core, develops statewide infrastructure as a platform for engaging communities and patients as comprehensive research partners.
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