Centers & Initiatives

AMEN Team

African American Mental Health and Wellness (AMEN) Program

The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing and Division of Campus and Community Engagement (DCCE) are partnering with the City of Austin, Mt. Zion Baptist Church, and Rehoboth Baptist Church to develop the African American Mental Health and Wellness (AMEN) Program with a new initiative catering to the cultural needs including mental and physical health of their residents.

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Assisted Living Facility (ALF) Quality of Care Study

The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing has partnered with the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) to conduct a study of assisted living facility (ALF) residents. This study will focus on quality of care and quality of life in Texas ALF’s across the state. Representative administrators and residents from 300 urban/metro ALF’s as well as 150 ALF’s located in rural counties will be surveyed.

Cancer Neuroscience Laboratory

Brain Health Neuroscience Laboratory

The Brain Health Neuroscience Laboratory at The University of Texas at Austin seeks to improve the lives of patients with chronic medical conditions by studying how diseases and their treatments affect brain health including cognition, sleep, mood and stress.

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Center for Advanced Research Methods (CARM)

The Center for Advanced Research Methods (CARM) aims to be a pivotal resource for both students and faculty at the School of Nursing, guiding them towards achieving exceptional research outcomes. We provide essential data science support that is critical for conducting rigorous, impactful research, thereby significantly contributing to the expansion and enrichment of the School of Nursing’s research portfolio.

TCRSS Team

Center for Health Equity Research (HER)

The Health Equity Research Center’s mission is to provide an environment that strengthens and expands collaborative intervention research in nursing and related disciplines by developing, testing, evaluating and disseminating innovative self-management solutions to improve patient-centered care and health outcomes of people with chronic conditions.

IPE team

Center for Health Interprofessional Practice and Education (IPE)

The Center for Health Interprofessional Practice and Education (IPE) leads the UT Austin’s efforts to transform health professions education by promoting innovative learning experiences, disseminating best practices, convening key health and education stakeholders, and championing impact-driven scholarship.

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Clinical Teaching Toolkit Resources and Exploring Clinical Teaching Pathways

We are delighted to share with you the resources that we developed and curated for the purpose of improving clinical teaching skills for nurses in both clinical and academic settings. At the bottom of this page, you will also find a video describing pathways for clinical teaching along with a series of interviews with dynamic nurse educators in different roles that may stimulate your interest in clinical teaching positions.

Community Health Worker Institute

Community Health Worker (CHW) Institute

The Community Health Worker (CHW) Institute was established to improve the quality of life and health outcomes of underserved populations/communities in Central Texas focused on health promotion, chronic disease self-management, mental health and women's health.

Digital Heart Health

Digital Heart Health

At the Digital Heart Health, we explore a combination of digital tools to provide support for knowledge and behavior for heart failure self-care by older adults over 55 years living in the community. We study how digital tools can provide information and support behaviors for taking better care of your heart condition.

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Henneghan Lab: Cognitive Health Initiative for Cancer Survivors

At the Cognitive Health Initiative for Cancer Survivors, we seek to assess, identify, and improve cognitive outcomes for all cancer survivors. Cognitive changes can occur during and after receiving cancer treatment and can manifest as difficulties with paying attention, multi-tasking, prioritizing, word finding, memory, and processing speed.

Luci Baines Johnson and Ian J. Turpin

Luci Baines Johnson and Ian J. Turpin Center for Gerontological Nursing

The Luci Baines Johnson and Ian J. Turpin Center (Johnson-Turpin Center) for Gerontological Nursing was established at The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing in September 2022 to recognize and honor the generous gifts and advocacy from Ms. Luci Baines Johnson and Mr. Ian J. Turpin in support of gerontological studies and related areas at the School of Nursing.

NightRest Study Research Team

NightRest Study

Nighttime agitation causes suffering for people with dementia, distresses caregivers, and often results in prescriptions for harmful antipsychotic medications. A sleep disorder, restless legs syndrome (RLS), may be causing nighttime agitation. The study will investigate if treatment of RLS with the FDA-approved medication, gabapentin enacarbil (Horizant®), improves sleep and reduces nighttime agitation, restless legs syndrome symptoms, and the use of antipsychotic medications.

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Person-Centered Medication Study

At the Person-Centered Medication study, we are exploring whether a medication teaching program helps people understand their medications and to assist them with taking their medications as prescribed. The study is with generous funding from St. David’s Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research (CHPR).

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Project HEALING

The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing, in collaboration with generous funding from the Neuropathy Alliance of Texas, is conducting a study to learn more about the experiences of people with peripheral neuropathy (PN). The purpose of this study is to better understand what is important to people with neuropathy.

CHPR Conference

St. David’s Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research in Underserved Populations

The Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research in Underserved Populations was established in 1999. In August of 2011, the St. David’s Foundation made a gift to the School of Nursing to create a permanent endowment to support the Center. In recognition of this gift, the Center was renamed the St. David’s Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research in Underserved Populations. The mission of the center is to improve the health of underserved people through applied research.

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Stress, Coping and Health in Motherhood Study

Researchers Lorraine Walker, EdD, RN, and Nicole Murry, PhD, RN, from The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing are conducting a study using an online survey to better understand stress, coping, and health among mothers of infants and young children between 2 and 22 months of age.

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T32 Precision Health Training Program

The UT Austin School of Nursing T32 Transdisciplinary Precision Health Intervention Methodology Training program is a five-year grant funded by the National Institutes of Health. This unique program aims to create a national model for training nurse scientists in precision health by providing predoctoral trainees with cutting-edge knowledge and methodologies in precision health, high-level training across disciplines, and access to resources to enhance nursing science.