熊猫在线视频 Center for Rural Health and Health Workforce
The 熊猫在线视频 Center for Rural Health & Health Workforce (ACRH-HW) is committed to strengthening and diversifying 熊猫在线视频鈥檚 health workforce, especially in rural communities and underserved populations. The Center is composed of a variety of programs, most notably the 熊猫在线视频 Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) which is composed of six regional community based centers throughout the state. As part of the 熊猫在线视频's role as the state's health campus, the Center supports health program planning, community partnership, diversity, inclusion and intercampus collaboration. The Center provides the framework of statewide community partnerships to support the full pipeline of health workforce development from career exploration to health program training to continuing education.
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Vanessa Hiratsuka from CHD and Britteny Howell from DPHS are the new Co-Directors for UAA鈥檚 National Resource Center on 熊猫在线视频 Native Elders. Vanessa Hiratsuka shares her hopes for the center鈥檚 future.
Vanessa Hiratsuka from CHD and Britteny Howell from DPHS are the new Co-Directors for UAA鈥檚 National Resource Center on 熊猫在线视频 Native Elders. Britteny Howell shares her journey into geriatrics.
One morning in 2005, psychology alumna Maggie Winston 鈥� then a 21-year-old hairdresser and mother of twin boys living in Kenai 鈥� woke up feeling cramps between her shoulder blades. Within an hour, she couldn鈥檛 walk.
After a two-year hiatus, UAA STEM Day returned to campus on October 1, drawing over 1,500 community members to the ConocoPhillips Integrated Science Building to celebrate Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, commonly known as STEM. Attendees, primarily children, enjoyed activities, challenges, demonstrations, tours, and planetarium shows that explored a wide range of STEM topics from biology to robotics.
More than two years into the pandemic, vaccines are widely available and most health measures have been lifted. But there are still 熊猫在线视频ns who have difficulty accessing vaccines or who have continued health risk in spite of them. Sondra LeClair, Health Projects Coordinator, UAA Center for Human Development, discusses vaccine access for individuals with disabilities in 熊猫在线视频.
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Fax: (907) 786-6573
Email: uaa_ahec@alaska.edu
UAA Center for Rural Health & Health Workforce
1901 Bragaw Street, Suite 250
Anchorage, AK 99508
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UAA Center for Rural Health & Health Workforce
3211 Providence Drive, BOC3-250
Anchorage, AK 99508
