Health and Wellness

CAP participants pose with their certificate of achievement.

In ‘community classrooms’ across Pittsburgh, Pitt med students are learning to be engaged physicians

The Community Alliance Program is rethinking traditional medical education, sending students into local public service organizations to learn critical communication and trust-building skills.

Baseball player throwing a pitch in a crowded stadium.

This Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher is taking a swing at raising mental health awareness

A family trauma almost toppled Pitt alum Isaac Mattson’s dream. A career roadblock may have saved it.

Chronic pain treatments can be dangerous and ineffective. These Pitt researchers are working on a solution.

Supported by NIH funding, the Vanish Therapeutics team is working to bring a bioabsorbable nerve stimulator to market.

People stand in front of a Pitt health sciences backdrop

A new Pitt center will use AI to accelerate women’s health research globally

The Vijayalakshmi Innovation Center is funded by a gift from siblings and health care entrepreneurs Vishnu Vardhan and Harsha Vardhini, along with a significant investment from the School of Medicine.

The Nonprofit Capacity Building Program cohort poses for a group photo at Café Momentum.

Nonprofits are scaling up their regional impact with support from Pitt

The Nonprofit Capacity Building Program connects local organizations working to improve economic stability with University training and resources.

This Pitt medical student wants to make tests for cerebral aneurysms simpler and more effective

Adi Mittal balances research, classwork and business as a student and startup founder.

The onsite Mission of Mercy Pittsburgh’s annual clinic provided evaluations and free hearing aids.

This year’s Mission of Mercy Pittsburgh clinic filled health care gaps for more than 1,500 patients

Hearing, vision and dental care is rarely covered by insurance. Here’s how 1,000 volunteers, many of them Pitt people, stepped in to help.

Fang on a staircase in the Honors College

This Pitt senior and cancer researcher is one to keep watching

Here’s what’s next for Richard Su Fang, a Goldwater scholar who has already received interview invitations from 17 MD/PhD programs.

Pitt startup founders pose at a table with Pitt banners and Roc the panther

Pitt’s first signing day for startups celebrated a milestone for researcher-entrepreneurs

Five new companies founded by Pitt researchers aim to improve wound care, cancer immunotherapy, chronic pain care and more.

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A PhD student presented at the American Public Health Association annual meeting

Jenn Lee’s research explores how dental medicine and social work disciplines differ in their understanding of the social determinants of oral health.