A Dialogue on Holistic Health: Sleep, Mind, and Sexuality, Health and Society Seminar
Did you know that in 2022, the American Heart Association included sleep as one of the eight essential factors for a healthy life? Poor sleep doesn’t just cause fatigue: it also affects the immune system’s response, disrupts metabolism, impacts emotional regulation, and hinders DNA repair. With the aim of raising awareness within the university community […]
Health, Neuroscience, and Nutrition: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue at the Health and Society Seminar
A discussion on health promotion, behavioral neuroscience, and nutrition was the central theme of the Health and Society Seminar, an event featuring Dr. Lina María Vera Cala, Dr. Ana Paola Mora Vergara, and Dr. William Villamil Villar. In Dr. Lina’s presentation, she addressed health promotion and maintenance, opening the session with a thought-provoking question: Are […]
University of London Student Conducts Internship at UIS on Demographic Variables in Patients Infected with Arboviruses
Anna Kessler, a master’s student in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, is conducting a research internship with the EPICLIN Research Group at the School of Medicine. Anna is a physician specializing in Internal Medicine. Her research interests include emerging infectious diseases in Latin America. During her time at UIS, her […]
The Caregivers Workshop Returns: A Free Initiative to Strengthen Home Care
Due to the success of the “Caregivers Workshop,” the Department of Public Health at the School of Medicine, in collaboration with the Bucaramanga Secretariat of Health and Environment, will host the second virtual edition of this workshop. This completely free training initiative is designed to strengthen, guide, and support individuals who care for older adults, […]
UIS promotes training for caregivers of people with chronic diseases
The Industrial University of Santander, through the Department of Public Health of the School of Medicine, and in coordination with the Secretariat of Health and Environment of Bucaramanga, is developing the Caregivers Workshop, a completely free training strategy aimed at strengthening, guiding, and accompanying people who care for older adults, people with disabilities, or people […]
UIS professor leads Colombian-Canadian project that enables analysis of health conditions throughout life
This project, funded by CIHR Canada and led in Colombia by Professor Laura Andrea Rodríguez Villamizar, director of the Department of Public Health at the School of Medicine of the Industrial University of Santander (UIS), and in Canada by Carleton University, seeks to create a population cohort based on administrative data that will provide key […]
UIS researchers took second place in the research projects category at the Psychiatry Congress
The Colombian Psychiatric Association awarded second place in the research project category to the study “Cardiometabolic factors, eating patterns, and sleep associated with mental health problems in boarding school students in the UIS Medicine program.” The objective of this study was to establish the prevalence and changes in cardiometabolic risk factors, eating and sleeping patterns, […]
Santander has a health repository
The official launch of the website salud.santander.gov.co took place in the main auditorium of the Scientific Complex for Health and Life Sciences Research. This modern platform brings together up-to-date health information with the aim of serving as a channel for disease prevention and wellness promotion for all citizens of the department of Santander. The renovation […]
UIS researchers participated in the meeting of the Colombian Epidemiology Association (ASOCEPIC)
The event was held on September 26 and 27 at Javeriana University in Bogotá. Students David Rodríguez and Valentina Torres, from the Health, Environment, and Society (SAMBISOC) seed group of the GUINDESS group in the Department of Public Health of the School of Medicine, participated with a poster and an oral presentation, respectively. Professor Oscar […]
Master’s students in Epidemiology at UIS held discussions with public health policymakers
The Industrial University of Santander, through its Master’s program in Epidemiology and under the coordination of Professor Myriam Ruiz Rodríguez from the Department of Public Health, successfully held an academic discussion that brought together graduate students and public health decision-makers from Paraguay, Mexico, and Colombia. This space for dialogue fostered joint reflection on lessons learned, […]