Jump to navigation

The University of Arizona Wordmark Line Logo White
Home
  • About Us
  • Contact
  • Donate
  • About Us
    • Faculty & Staff
      • Martin Caudillo
    • Mission, Vision and Guiding Principles
    • Strategic Plan & Core Strategies
  • Contact
  • Donate
Subscribe to our Newsletter | Connect with us    

Search form

  • Home
  • Policy One-Pagers
  • Programs
  • Events
  • News
  • Map Room
  • Publications
  • Data & Resources

Daniel Derksen, MD

Daniel Derksen, MD

UAHS Associate Vice President for Health Equity, Outreach & Interprofessional Activities
Professor and Walter H. Pearce Endowed Chair
Community, Environment and Policy Department
Director of the Arizona Center for Rural Health
1295 N. Martin
Campus PO Box: 245210
Drachman Hall
Tucson, AZ 85724
(520) 626-3085
dderksen@email.arizona.edu

Biography

Daniel Derksen, MD is the University of Arizona Health Sciences Associate Vice President for Health Equity, Outreach & Interprofessional Activities. He is a tenured Professor of Public Health in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health with joint appointments in the College of Medicine and the College of Nursing. His current service, education and research activities include informing legislative, regulatory and program policy to improve access to health care and health insurance coverage; narrowing health disparities; developing, implementing and evaluating interprofessional service-learning sites; and working to assure a well-trained and distributed health workforce to meet the health needs of all Arizonans. 

Dr. Derksen was born in Phoenix, attended the UArizona for both his B.S. (1979) and M.D. (1984) degrees, completed his family medicine residency at the University of New Mexico (1987), and served on the UNM School of Medicine faculty for 25 years. He returned to the UArizona in 2012. In 2018 he was awarded the UNM Napolitano Alumni Award and in 2019 the UArizona College of Medicine Alumnus of the Year.

Dr. Derksen completed a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship in 2007-08 with U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman (NM). He researched and drafted provisions to improve the supply and distribution of the nation’s health workforce included in Title V of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) including Teaching Health Centers.

Working for Governor Martinez as Director, NM Office of Health Reform in 2011-12, he was PI of the CMS Health Insurance Exchange grant, establishing what is now Be Well New Mexico which has 45,000 enrollees. 

Dr. Derksen directs the Arizona Center for Rural Health and is Principal Investigator (PI) of grants including the State Office of Rural Health funded by HRSA and the State of Arizona, the Rural Hospital Flexibility Program, and ADHS–AzCRH Intergovernmental Services Agreements of federally funded initiatives: the SAMHSA First Responders and the CDC Overdose Data to Action initiatives. He is Senior Advisor and PI for State and HRSA funded and designated AzAHEC Program that is directed by Leila Barraza JD, MPH. In his 30-year academic career he has been PI of federal, foundation and state grants of more than $75 million. 

 

Contact the CRH

» Check out our Faculty/Staff page for individual contact information.

Az Center for Rural Health
Phone: 520-626-5823
Fax: 520-626-3101
Email Us

Az Rural Hospital Flexibility Program
Phone: 520-626-0721
Fax: 520-626-3101
Website: AzFLEX

Az State Office of Rural Health Program
Phone: 520-626-2254
Fax: 520-626-8716
Website: AzSORH

Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
College Directory
Website: MEZCOPH

About the AzCRH

The Az Center for Rural Health is part of the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health at The University of Arizona. 

CRH History
Faculty and Staff
Contact Us
Follow @UACRH


 

Home

Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
1295 N. Martin Ave. - P.O. Box 245163
Tucson, Arizona 85724
All contents copyright © . Arizona Board of Regents.
Privacy | Webmaster | Sitemap | Center for Rural Health


University Privacy Statement


© 2021 The Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of The University of Arizona.

The University of Arizona