News from the School of Nursing & Health Studies

MS Student Published in NAMI

Harkirat Kaur, student in the Master of Science in Community Health and Social Justice program, was published in the National Alliance on Mental Illness on November 21, 2025. Harkirat’s article, “Building a Resilient Future: Youth Mental Health and Suicide Prevention,” is a call to action: “youth suicide prevention must become a statewide-and nationwide-priority.” Read Harkirat’s...

November 25, 2025

SNHS Student Story for Narrative Matters

Eirene Fudenna, Master of Science in Community Health & Social Justice student, will be published in “Narrative Matters” in January 2026. The article, “Learning the Limits of Health Care Sharing Plans,” details a medical crisis Fudenna experienced 5 years ago. As a member of a health care sharing ministry, Fudenna experienced issues paying for the...

November 21, 2025

Professor Early Presents Research

SNHS professor Jody Early presented her research, “Re-imagining mental health promotion at the grassroots: An evaluation of a culturally responsive lay mental health navigator program in Washington State” at the American Public Health Association’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. in November. Dr. Early is the Principal Investigator and co-director of the community-based program, Mental Health Matters of...