Health and Wellness

The Health and Wellness Research Community strives to be the leading hub that connects and empowers interdisciplinary health researchers committed to research excellence for healthier futures for all.

By fostering supportive communities for researchers across disciplines, promoting knowledge exchange, and enabling access to internal and external funding, we aim to catalyze quality publications, impactful innovations, and breakthrough solutions that improve health, well-being and equity in our society.

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Capitalize and expand ongoing collaboration
Facilitate and support grant proposals
Evaluate and pursue commercial research
Identify areas of study that have IP potential
Identify and engage with external partners
Increase community footprint

Kennesaw State receives $1.2 million for opioid disorder training

As Georgia navigates a widespread opioid addiction crisis, researchers in Kennesaw State University’s Wellstar School of Nursing (WSON) are leveraging a $1.2 million grant to train budding nurses in addressing substance use disorders.

The researchers – Katherine Barnett, Susan Beidler, Ashley Barber and Lisa Reyes-Walsh – received the grant from the Georgia Opioid Crisis Abatement Trust (GOCAT) for their two-year project, “Nurses Learning About Opioid Use Disorder,” or Nurses LOUD.