The Center for Women's Health and Wellness
The Center for Women's Health and Wellness is designed to address regional disparities in the quality and access of healthcare across ethnic and socioeconomic groups. The Center for Health and Wellness works to narrow gaps in delivery of quality, accessible healthcare—especially for those in underrepresented populations.
- MMU Occupational Therapy and School of Nursing students provide community nursing and occupational therapy services to residents at Milwaukee Catholic Home and Trinity Woods, as well as the Wauwatosa Daycare facility located onsite at Trinity Woods.
- In 2024, the university expanded and reinvigorated a partnership with Penfield Children's Center to deliver pediatric care to at risk children and families, helping provide the foundation for lifelong development.
- Culturabot, a 2024 project sponsored by the Amazon Web Service Health Equity Initiative is using generative artificial intelligence to create culturally responsive care plans. Students and faculty from the MMU Occupational Therapy and User Experience (UX) Design programs worked with AWS advisers to create a product that will be scalable, with future applications across multiple healthcare disciplines. Now in its field testing phase, the IAWC and development team are working to connect the Culturabot app to potential investors for widespread distribution.
- In June 2025 the Institute and the Mount Mary School of Graduate Health & Professional Programs hosted Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Women's Wellness, an event promoting interdisciplinary discourse among practitioners in counseling, art therapy, occupational therapy, social work and dietetics.
Read more about the Institute for the Advancement of Women and Children at these links: