Meet the Director

Dr. Gail Hudson-Gillan, Director
ggillan@uh.edu
713.743.5461

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Welcome to the University of Houston Wellness Center website. The Wellness Center is a campus wide education and prevention program whose mission is to promote healthier choices and a healthier, safer learning environment for the university community. Education and prevention is the sole mission of the center as its activities include workshops, training, campus wide programming, national awareness campaigns, academic training, peer education, alternative activities, consultation, and the provision of a wellness information clearinghouse. We work to offer many of our programs on line or through a variety of venues so that more students are able to access our services. We also work to involve students in their own well being so we encourage you to come by the Wellness Center and find out how you can get involved as a peer educator, a peer helper, or a peer volunteer.

Housed within the Division of Student Affairs and the Department of Learning and Assessment Service, the Wellness Center is celebrating its tenth year of existence, having been institutionalized following a U.S. Department of Education grant. The Wellness Center provides leadership not only on campus, but in the community as well. It is through the Wellness Center that the university serves as the coordinating institution for the Houston-Galveston Consortium for Health Promotion. Additionally, it is one of only 32 institutions nationally selected to participate in the Social Norms Marketing Research Project. Its primary mission remains, however, to assist students in all dimensions of wellness in an effort to help them achieve their academic and personal goals.