UNLV's School of Public Health has partnered with CareSource to launch the Community Health Innovation Grant Challenge, offering up to $25,000 each to six local organizations working to improve healthcare access and outcomes. The initiative comes as families across the valley face difficult choices between essential healthcare and basic needs like food and housing.

Of the $300,000 investment, $150,000 will be distributed through the CareSource Foundation Community Health Innovation Grant Challenge, providing grants of up to $25,000 to as many as six Nevada nonprofit organizations. The remaining $150,000 will support UNLV School of Public Health faculty research and the work of the Nevada Community Health Coalition in the areas of maternal and child health, social drivers of health, and immunization awareness and confidence.

The school year is just getting started and big changes are already taking place at UNLV. As of this month, the university has officially become a smoke-free campus.

More than a decade after advocates started pushing for the change, UNLV this month joined more than 2,000 universities nationwide in becoming a smoke-free campus.

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas has announced that it will become a smoke-free and tobacco-free campus on Monday.

Starting Monday, UNLV students and staff are no longer allowed to smoke or vape indoors or outdoors.

As of Monday, students and staff at UNLV are no longer allowed to smoke or vape indoors or outdoors.

Improving the health and well-being of Nevadans is not the job of one person or group. It can only be done if we all come together and work toward real and meaningful change. For years, both schools of public health at UNR and UNLV have been doing just that — putting the presumed north-south rivalry aside and working together to mitigate pressing public health challenges during the pandemic