Why Are Our Babies Dying? Pregnancy, Birth, and Death in America Sandra Lane is Chair of Health and Wellness and Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University, as well as Research Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at SUNY Upstate Medical University and the author of Why Are Our Babies Dying.  Pregnancy, Birth, and Death in America. More

Bringing Theory to Practice: Engaged Learning, Student Mental Health & Well Being and Civic Engagement Funded by the Charles Engelhard Foundation in partnership with AAC&U, the Bringing Theory to Practice Project (BTtoP) seeks to advance engaged student learning and determine how it might improve the quality of students’ education, development, health, and commitment to civic engagement. Syracuse University is one of seven campuses nationwide selected through a competitive grant process to explore specific forms of engaged learning (including civic or service-learning and community-directed collaborative research) and their effectiveness as elements of campus plans to intervene or deter alcohol abuse and depression among students. (link to main BTtP site www.bringingtheorytopractice.org). For further information about the Syracuse University project Bringing Theory to Practice please visit http://students.syr.edu/engagement/index.html.

Minority Health Initiatives Under the leadership of Luvenia Cowart, associate professor of practice in health and wellness, the College of Human Ecology is involved in a number initiatives addressing minority health. Targeted at under-served and at-risk populations, these projects and programs are in keeping with the goals of Healthy People 2010, a national health promotion and disease prevention initiative that calls for an increase in quality and years of healthy life and the elimination of health disparities. Initiatives have focused on health literacy, health education, cultural competence, and health-related interventions for African Americans and other vulnerable populations. More