The College of Arts and Sciences recognizes that our community is our most valuable asset. To underscore our care for students and employees and to recognize that we all face new personal, academic and work challenges, our Be Well initiative has launched a series of expert presentations—Let’s CU Well—to help our community find balance in both home and school life. The college's wellness researchers and practitioners provide the regular public presentations, including those listed below, that compose the Let's CU Well series.
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Upcoming Events
Tuesday, Mar 21, 2023 11:00 AM
Moving Away from Biomedical Individualism in Health and Wellness
Let's CU Well with Dr. Maisam Alomar
In this session, Dr. Alomar will explore the focus on individual responsibility for COVID prevention which overlooks underlying causes as to why minorities generally had worse outcomes than the overall population in the U.S. In the days since COVID-19 first became a pandemic in the United States in 2020, researchers and health care professionals developed a series of guidelines to reduce the risk of dying or becoming seriously ill from the disease. Those guidelines were well-meaning, but at the same time they generally focused on “biomedical individualism” (what the individual could do to reduce their risk) to the exclusion of understanding why certain segments of the population, particularly racial and ethnic minorities, were at much greater risk of being harmed by COVID-19. Alomar will share additional views on COVID-19 and U.S. health care policy during her upcoming seminar, “Moving Away from Biomedical Individualism in Health and Wellness.”
This event is virtual, free and open to the public.
Past Events
Indigenous Health, Healing, and Climate Change: Insights from the Cherokee Nation
Feb. 13, 2023
Captions coming soon.
Emotional Intelligence for Effective Communication and Leadership Success
April 28, 2022
Managing Mental Health Through Traumatic Events
Jan. 7, 2022
HeartMath workshop series
