Research

Advancing Research Through Collaboration

Our Office of Research and Scholarly Activity supports the overall West Virginia University Health Sciences strategic plan to promote health and eliminate health disparities, while focusing on our vision for optimal health, enhanced quality of life, and excellent healthcare for the people of West Virginia and the global community.

Our research program includes colleagues from the WVU Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, and Public Health, WVU Medicine and the West Virginia Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. Multiple funding sources, including federal, state, foundation, institutional and industry, support the program.

We are committed to the next generation of nurse scholars and offers baccalaureate, graduate students and new faculty-mentored experiences with established researchers in a scholarly interprofessional research environment.

Our Goals

  • Promote the conduct and dissemination of nursing and transdisciplinary healthcare scholarship

  • Facilitate internal and external interprofessional research teams and partnerships

  • Maintain a strong cadre of nurse scholars

  • Prepare nurse scientists to assume leadership roles that affect science, practice, and policy

  • Build robust funding streams

Two older women sit at a table, smiling and looking at a laptop.

Improving Lives

With a $2.7 million award from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Nursing Research that is one of the largest ever for the WVU School of Nursing, the faculty researchers aim to support these families while increasing access to care in the rural reaches of the Mountain State by testing an integrated, nurse-led intervention for family home care management of end-stage heart failure and palliative care.

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