Centers & Programs

Next-Generation Education

Preparing students to build and lead the future of health care.

Precision Health Care for All

Designing and developing precision treatments for all populations.

Improving Health and Well-being

Influencing the critical factors that improve health care outcomes and wellness.

Creating Defenses Against Disease

Unraveling the complexities of human biology to build better defenses against disease.

New Frontiers for Better Health

Creating new opportunities to develop innovative solutions for global health care problems.

Next-Generation Education

Preparing students to build and lead the future of health care.

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Arizona Area Health Education Centers

The Arizona Area Health Education Centers program focuses on developing integrated, sustainable, health care workforce education programs with an emphasis on primary care and increasing access in Arizona's rural and underserved communities. The program works to improve the supply, quality and distribution of the health workforce.

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Arizona Simulation Technology & Education Center

The Arizona Simulation Technology & Education Center provides innovative, collaborative learning opportunities for new students and seasoned practitioners to learn, practice and assess their understanding of procedures in a high-tech, realistically simulated environment. ASTEC engages learners at all levels by utilizing high-fidelity simulation technology with innovative methods of experiential learning theory.

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Health Sciences Design Program

The Health Sciences Design Program engages undergraduate, graduate and professional students from all disciplines in the development of solutions to health care challenges. The program offers an innovation space that includes advanced equipment and expert faculty and staff, giving students an opportunity to develop critical skills and competencies in health sciences design thinking.

Precision Health Care for All

Designing and developing precision treatments for all populations.

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All of Us Research Program

The National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program is a historic effort to collect and study data from 1 million or more people living in the United States to improve health care. The University of Arizona and Banner Health are partners in the All of Us Research Program in Arizona and Colorado.

Improving Health and Well-being

Influencing the critical factors that improve health care outcomes and wellness.

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Clinical & Translational Sciences Research Center

The Clinical and Translational Sciences Research Center supports investigative clinical research at the University of Arizona and Banner – University Medical Center. The medical facility provides a complete environment to support clinical trials in a central location that allows convenient access to hospital resources, including clinical laboratories, radiology and more.

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One Health

One Health is an approach that recognizes the health and wellness interconnection between people, animals, plants and our shared environment. One Health integrates expertise in human, animal and environmental health to improve health outcomes, better respond to public health challenges, assure safe and healthy food and water, and protect global health security.

Creating Defenses Against Disease

Unraveling the complexities of human biology to build better defenses against disease.

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Aegis Consortium

The Aegis Consortium unites a diverse coalition of experts from all corners of the human experience to develop pandemic solutions. The consortium operates across disciplines, industries and borders to develop flexible solutions that can be implemented in communities worldwide. Its goal is to create a pandemic-free future for all.

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Center for Disparities in Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolism

The Center for Disparities in Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism seeks to improve the health and well-being of Latino people with Type 2 diabetes. The center serves as a nucleus for interdisciplinary research that forms the foundation for the translation of biomedical research to advanced, evidence-based clinical care in the community.

New Frontiers for Better Health

Creating new opportunities to develop innovative solutions for global health care problems.

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Center for Accelerated Biomedical Innovation

The Center for Accelerated Biomedical Innovation is aimed at developing solutions for unsolved problems and unmet needs in health care and individual well-being. The center identifies enhanced uses for technologies developed by researchers at the university and collaborating partners that can be rapidly implemented in the clinical world.

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Health Sciences SensorLab

The SensorLab connects researchers to technologies and digital solutions with health applications to advance novel human-centered hardware and software sensor systems. The mission is to create an engaging and inspirational environment with access to equipment and expertise that encourages creativity and innovation to push forward the next generation of sensor-based investigation and discovery.