It has been two decades since the publication of Unequal Treatment, the first major report to point to longstanding systemic racism as the primary reason for the nation’s deeply entrenched health disparities. Jennie Joe, PhD, MPH, a professor emerita of family and community medicine at the College of Medicine – Tucson and interim director of the UArizona Wassaja Carlos Montezuma Center for Native American Health, is quoted.

As Ike Chinyere, PhD, a University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson third-year medical student, breaks it down, biomedical research, clinical care and entrepreneurship fit together naturally.

College of Medicine – Tucson Class of 2024 medical students will receive their white coats on Feb. 25.

Even as they take a moment to celebrate their successes over the past 65 years, the College of Nursing looks to the future with the launch of a Certified Nurse Midwifery program.

University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers were awarded a $6.6 million National Institutes of Health grant to develop the Center of Excellence in Addiction Studies to improve addiction research and develop therapies that can stem the opioid epidemic and impact other substance abuse disorders.

Opinion piece by Geoffrey Boyce, PhD, academic director of the Earlham College Border Studies Program in Tucson and Sam Chambers, PhD, a researcher in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health.

A new initiative seeks to unite global experts from universities, government agencies, nonprofits and industry to develop solutions to future pandemics.

Some Pennsylvania cannabis companies are using misleading claims to promote marijuana as a treatment for opioid addiction, potentially putting patients' lives at greater risk. The article cites a paper by Beth Wiese, a neuroscience doctoral candidate in the UArizona Graduate Interdisciplinary Program. Wiese works in the labs of Todd Vanderah, PhD, interim director of the UArizona Health Sciences Comprehensive Pain and Addiction Center and Tally Largent-Milnes, PhD, assistant professor of pharmacology in the College of Medicine – Tucson.