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UAB’s impact across the state during 2024 — and what’s next for 2025

2024 was a landmark year for UAB, with its influence resonating powerfully throughout Birmingham and the entire state of Alabama.

Community Health Coaches Help LHSA Build Bridges to Better Health

  Accessing quality healthcare is oftentimes more complicated than simply scheduling a doctor’s appointment. For many, it can involve coordinating transportation, finding childcare, managing work schedules, accessing and navigating the healthcare system, or overcoming deep seeded fears. These challenges, along[…]

Building Community Capacity: Graduates of LHSA's Leadership Academy Organize Festival to Promote Unity & Shared Purpose

  Live HealthSmart Alabama’s Community Leadership Academy (CLA) is a custom curriculum designed to develop community members who are interested in or already serving in leadership roles. Over the course of several sessions, the academy helps individuals understand personal strengths,[…]

How UAB is taking a leading role in health promotion worldwide

Innovative programs and a high-profile position in the International Health Promoting Campuses Network have made UAB a model for other universities in the United States and beyond.

Alabama Representative Congresswoman Terri Sewell Highlights Live HealthSmart Alabama’s Impact at National Hearing

During the September 18, 2024, United States House Committee on Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Hearing on Investing in a Healthier America: Chronic Disease Prevention & Treatment, U.S. representative of Alabama's 7th congressional district, Congresswoman Terri Sewell, took a moment[…]

Mobile Market Shopper Appreciation Event

The North Birmingham community recently came together for Live HealthSmart Alabama’s (LHSA) Shopper Appreciation event, designed to promote health and well-being among residents. Attendees received $25 vouchers to spend at LHSA’s Mobile Market, which provides a variety of fresh produce[…]

Live HealthSmart Alabama Unveils New Mural at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s School of Education and Human Sciences Building

The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s (UAB) School of Education and Human Sciences (SEHS) has unveiled a new mural by Amanda Viikinsalo, a graduate student in educational leadership. This mural is the third in Live HealthSmart Alabama’s Stairway to Wellness[…]

Strengthen Alabama Homes Brings FORTIFIED™ Roofs to Selma Community

Live HealthSmart Alabama (LHSA), an initiative of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has partnered with the State Department of Insurance’s Strengthen Alabama Homes (SAH), whose program provided 40 FORTIFIED™ roofs to homeowners in East Selma, Alabama.

From Classroom to Community: UAB's Hands-On Approach with Live HealthSmart Alabama

As the first university in the United States to adopt the Okanagan Charter and earn recognition as a Health Promoting University (HPU), the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is committed to promoting health and well-being across its campus and[…]

Live HealthSmart Alabama celebrates community improvements in East Lake

With more than 3,300 residents living in East Lake, Live HealthSmart Alabama hopes to encourage a healthier lifestyle by providing safe spaces for them to get outside.

Graduates of Live HealthSmart Alabama’s Community Leadership Academy present solutions to key stakeholders

The CLA was made possible with support from Coca-Cola United, whose generous donation of $250,000 funded LHSA’s pilot academy.

UAB and City of Birmingham host Regional Wellness Day on April 20

Members of the Birmingham community can receive access to biometric and cancer screenings during the first Regional Wellness Day. 

Live HealthSmart Alabama announces expansion into central Alabama with support from Novo Nordisk Inc.

Through a generous gift from Novo Nordisk Inc., Live HealthSmart Alabama is beginning to expand statewide, starting in central Alabama with Selma, Demopolis and Camden, while taking steps to make good health simple — one person, one family and one[…]

Live HealthSmart Alabama Celebrates New Designated Partners

A total of 15 organizations were recognized as Live HealthSmart Alabama Designated Partners for their commitment to promoting a healthier city and state. Led by Live HealthSmart Alabama (LHSA), an initiative of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the event[…]

Live HealthSmart Alabama participates in the 24th Bi-Annual 'Into the Streets' Event

On Saturday, September 9th, 2023, 344 volunteers gathered at 18 different Birmingham community sites to participate in the 24th bi-annual "Into the Streets," a program for students, faculty, and staff designed to support UAB's mission of forming partnerships that enhance[…]

Live HealthSmart Alabama launches Community Leadership Academy with inaugural cohort

The academy provides a forum where knowledge and skills are developed and refined to support community leaders as they conduct planning and improvement projects, balance needs and resources, and secure funding that ignites change.

Live HealthSmart Alabama’s Stairway to Wellness initiative unveils first of 11 murals across University of Alabama at Birmingham campus

Live HealthSmart Alabama, an initiative of the University of Alabama at Birmingham facilitated by the UAB Minority Health & Health Equity Research Center, has recently completed the first of what will be 11 murals in stairwells across the university. The[…]

$9.6 million grant will create Center for Cancer Control in Persistent Poverty Areas through the UAB Minority Health & Health Equity Research Center and O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center

As one of only five universities selected, UAB joins the NIH’s first major program to address how structural and institutional factors of persistent poverty relate to cancer.

UAB hosts first ever in-person Health Promoting Universities Summit Presidents Panel

The Health Promoting University Presidents Panel was just one part of the larger U.S. Health Promoting Campuses Network Summit, which brought together over 170 participants from universities across the country.

Live HealthSmart Alabama celebrates completion of Bush Hills Connection Complex

Live HealthSmart Alabama is continuing to make good health simple with its completion of the new Bush Hills Connection Complex and Urban Garden.

“We have a lot of lives to reach”: $250,000 gift from Coca-Cola UNITED will help Live HealthSmart Alabama launch community leadership academies in underserved communities

The Healthy Happy Kids program focuses on a different health and physical activity topic each week, encouraging children to make healthier choices.

2022 in review: Onward and upward

The university achieved innumerable accomplishments this year, including two program 50th anniversaries, a milestone gift to the College of Arts and Sciences, and the announcement of a new conference for UAB Athletics.

Fouad takes a leadership role with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Professor Mona Fouad, M.D., a nationally recognized leader in health disparities research, is joining UAB’s Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (ODEI) as associate vice president.

Fouad’s team named winner of UAB’s inaugural Grand Challenge

The winning proposal is a comprehensive approach to fixing Alabama’s complex health problems and includes 90 partners from government, business, education and more.

Healthy Alabama 2030 team charts changes to lift state rankings

Grand Challenge finalist plans to make Alabama a model of healthy living by expanding proven innovations and changing policies, neighborhoods, schools and workplaces.