Collazo-Vargas will speak on creating and maintaining healthy relationship habits throughout the lifespan, strategies for improving communication and tools for recognizing when it is time to end the relationship.
Erika Collazo-Vargas, a member of James Madison University’s Department of Health Sciences, will speak on “Is This Us? How to Recognize the Signs of Unhealthy Relationships and What to Do About Them” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27, in the Boitnott Room at Bridgewater College.
Collazo-Vargas will focus on creating and maintaining healthy relationship habits throughout the lifespan, strategies for improving communication and tools for recognizing when it is time to end the relationship.
Collazo-Vargas, an assistant professor of health sciences at JMU, teaches undergraduate health science courses and volunteers as a Safe Zone coordinator. Collazo-Vargas’ research focuses on sexual health and minority populations.
Collazo-Vargas earned a B.A. in pre-law from the University of Puerto Rico, an M.P.H. from the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus and a Ph.D. in health behavior from Indiana University Bloomington.
The program is free and open to the public.
