Restoring Health Through Community.
The Healthy Appalachia Institute’s mission is to improve the health, education, environment and prosperity for residents of central Appalachia by collaborating across communities and organizations, generating and implementing new ideas, and engaging the social, economic and scientific issues that exist at the interface of health and the Appalachian culture.
Telehealth Nursing Symposium Held
A symposium on telehealth nursing in rural Southwest Virginia featured ten speakers who presented on a variety of topics. The March 31st "Symposium to Advance Rural Telehealth Nursing" was held on the campus of UVa-Wise, hosted by the Healthy Appalachia Institue and the UVa-Wise Department of Nursing.
Wells Fargo Continues Support for the Healthy Appalachia Institute
Building on the success of the establishment of the Wells Fargo Healthy Appalachia Student Fellows Awards last fall, Wells Fargo has renewed its support for undergraduate research at the institute.
Healthy Appalachia Faculty Member Ann Duesing Receives DeBakey Award at the Library of Congress
Ann Duesing, a Librarian at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library at the University of Virginia and a founding member of the Healthy Appalachia Institute faculty at UVa-Wise, is the 2011 recipient of the National Library of Medicine Michael E. DeBakey Library 
Services Outreach Award. Ms. Duesing received the award at a ceremony on November 3, 2011 at the Library of Congress. For more information see: http://news.hsl.virginia.edu/?p=2785
