Center for Health and Wellbeing

Welcome to CHW

The Center for Health and Wellbeing (CHW) fosters research and teaching on the multiple aspects of health and wellbeing in both developed and developing countries. 

The center’s goals are to understand the determinants of health and wellbeing and the role that public policy plays in shaping the quality of people’s lives, and to educate undergraduates and graduate students who aspire to careers in health and health policy.

Since its inception in 2000, CHW has convened an active interdisciplinary community of researchers who work on health, wellbeing and health policy. 

It has also developed high-quality teaching programs in health and health policy at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Read more

Upcoming Events

Global Health Colloquium "Healthcare Through a Human Rights Crisis"
Fri, Apr 19, 2024, 12:00 pm1:30 pm


During this session, Dr. Moayedi will invite participants to analyze the abortion care landscape in Texas by understanding both the past and present of ”how we got here”; evaluate the consequences of abortion restrictions on medical education and pregnancy care in Texas…

Free & open to the public
Conference on The Promise and Potential of Animal Vaccines in Global Health
Wed, Oct 2, 2024, 9:00 amThu, Oct 3, 2024, 5:00 pm

Coordinated international efforts to expand access to human vaccines yielded vast gains in global health. Parallel efforts in animal vaccination could yield similarly vast benefits, increasing food security and reducing risks to human health, from evolution of antibiotic resistance to pandemic emergence. The area remains largely unexplored and…

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