University of Arizona medical students who want to join the front lines of the fight against the coronavirus pandemic can ask to graduate early.

The SAFER program team, led by Dr. Kristen Pogreba-Brown in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, will initiate investigations of positive COVID-19 cases to mitigate its spread and learn more about the risk factors.

The University of Arizona Cancer Center will receive $1.4 million as a collaborating center with the national network of academic, public health and community partners, working together to reduce the burden of cancer, especially among Hispanic cancer survivors.

Engineering and health sciences researchers are teaming up to address the shortage of personal protective equipment in Tucson health care facilities.

Those who qualify can begin serving as early as mid-April.

The Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson offers several strategies to enhance the immune system and reduce the risk of viral infection.

Nearly 1,000 participants including nurses, physicians, senior health-care executives, rural hospital CEOs and experts from the information technology sector, were trained on providing care via telemedicine and integrating telemedicine into their practice.

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College of Medicine – Tucson and BIO5 scientists quickly respond so Arizona health care providers can increase testing.