About.

This website was created for KINE 3351-500: Public Health Informatics at the University of Texas at Arlington. The purpose of this website is to highlight how common depression is among adults over the age of 18 with a focus Black females. This website also provides information on symptoms, treatments, and ways to help if you are struggling with depression.

Our Team

Allicyn Harris
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Allicyn Harris worked primarily on the Ways to Help page. This included providing an image and information on seeking help, at home support, and what to expect when seeing a mental health professional. She also provided information with Natalie Epperson's resource sections. Allicyn provided information about self screening, price of therapy, popular treatment options, and highlighted how important it is to see a psychiatrist if you have depression. She provided data on statistics on morbidity and mortality, and an interactive line graph showing the percentage of people confirmed to have depression each year sorted by race. She also provided information in the monitoring of depression section.​

Maram Alnajjar

Maram Alnajjar's work on this project was creating the website's outline, including design, titles and tabs. Adding the definition on depression, gathering information about the  causes and symptoms of depression. Provided information on how common depression is among Black women and made sections in the website. 
Maram's contribution also included providing a conclusion for the home page as well as providing statistics on Black women that report having depression, and adding a bar graph showing the total percentage of people over the age of 18 years who have depression. 

Natalie Epperson
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Natalie Epperson is working toward a Public Health degree at The University of Texas at Arlington. She has been working as a Medical Assistant for the past 7 years. The parts that she worked on in this project was describing depression, adding onto depression in black women and providing an image, providing some information on services, and resources. She made Figure 3, Men vs Women with depression, did the conclusion on the "ways to help page", created the section about government involvement with depression, changed the wording to be directed to our audience instead of about our audience, and did grammar and spell check throughout our website.​