The Arizona Center for Rural Health and U of A Zuckerman College of Public Health Rural Health Professions Program (RHPP) is a partnership with the Arizona Area Health Education Center (AHEC) and regional AHECs.
Service Learning
The core of our program is our offering of service learning courses. Service learning is built on the idea that experiential education, learning in the field instead of the classroom, builds a stronger understanding between students, faculty, and communities.
The overall goal of our program focuses on increasing the numbers of public health students who practice in rural and underserved communities in the state of Arizona.
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Our program also administers the AHEC Scholars Program, which is integrated with the RHPPs at the University of Health Sciences, Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University, and with Arizona's regional AHECs.
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Service-Learning Courses
MILAGRO
Migration Inter-Professional Leading to Action and Growth
Community: Tucson and Southern Arizona
Participate in a collaborative humanitarian response to address migration in the borderlands of Southern Arizona and Northern Mexico. The course is taught by an interprofessional group of faculty and staff, in partnership with the Casa Alitas Migrant Welcome Center and community partners.
Community Engagement
Collaboratively respond to health disparities encountered by disadvantaged and marginalized communities. Learn along side different communities such as urban, rural, homeless, veterans, border region, immigrants, and farmworkers through community-based engagement and experiential learning in collaboration with the Primary Prevention Mobile Health Unit, Street Medicine.
Family and Child Health in Urban Settings
Community: Tucson
Explore current health and social policy and programs affecting families and children as you are immersed in the diverse organizations and communities that reflect the US-Mexico borderlands.
Border Health
Community: Yuma, Arizona – Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico.
Grab your passport and prepare for a binational, bicultural experience. Explore the role of public health advocacy in globalization, migration and health.
Rural Health
Community: Southeastern Arizona
Climate and Health focus
Through this immersion with community organizations serving the needs of small and rural communities in Southeastern Arizona, students will explore environmental health and the health issues related to climate, agriculture, through an environmental justice perspective.