Health and Wellness

Research Areas

UT faculty and students develop innovative technologies, processes, and discoveries to tackle complex challenges that improve life and lives

Our expertise spans the entire translational health science spectrum, from discovery to implementation. Together we are improving health and wellness across the following key research areas.

An experiment using a virtual reality bicycle exercise program in the Physical Activity Epidemiology Lab at the University of Tennessee.

Biomedical Tools and Technologies

Applying biological sciences, genetics and genomics, engineering, computational sciences, and data visualization to create advanced technologies for imaging, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation

Biomedical innovation at UT
computational health and medicine at UT
April Bryant, a clinical faculty with the College of Nursing, works with a student in a skils lab inside the nursing building in Research Park at the University of Tennessee.

Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases

Creating tools and advancing knowledge to predict, detect, and understand the interactions between humans, genetics, the environment, and infectious and chronic diseases

CANCER AND OTHER CHRONIC DISEASES at UT
Ivis Chaple works with graduate student Caleb Noe in her lab in the Zeanah Engineering Complex.

Infectious Disease

Developing and advancing innovative approaches to detect, model, and mitigate infectious threats while strengthening resilience in individuals, communities, and health systems locally and globally

Infectious Disease at UT
Preparing a sample for electrophoresis in the Pathogen and Pest Lab inside the Agriculture and Natural Resources Building at the University of Tennessee.

Promoting Healthy Communities and Lifestyles

Developing advanced solutions to address physical, psychological, and social barriers to well-being and resilience for individuals, families, and communities

Behavioral, social and mental healTh at ut
FOOD, NUTRITION AND EXERCISE at ut
David Jackson, project manager for UT’s UP and UP program (Underrepresented Providers and Underrepresented Populations), greets a patient in the parking lot of the Morgan County Health Department.