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Tery’ance Horace sits at a table with textbooks in front of him talking to a woman in front of a VETS Military Connected Student Center sign.

Air Force veteran finds new home with MEPN program

Tery’ance Horace traded wings for scrubs and a fresh career at the U of A College of Nursing

Two men and a woman, all dressed in hard hats and reflective mining jackets, looks at a mining facility in the distance. Their backs are to the camera.

U of A and mining company launch community health impact assessment in Santa Cruz County

A closeup of a long scar on a woman's shoulder.

A type of immune cell could hold a key to preventing scar tissue buildup in wounds

Photo of one woman holding a microphone, talking while two other women look at her.

College of Nursing’s INCATS program boosts Indigenous health care

Uniquely U of A Health Sciences

Training first responders and health care providers how to help people who have been exposed to hazardous materials around the state and around the world is the mission of the Advanced Hazmat Life Support team.

Advanced Hazmat Life Support Keeps Good Chemicals from Going Bad

Esteban Ramirez, a student from Pima County JTED, a technical education program for high school students, bumps fists with Nathan Cherrington, PhD (right), director of the Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center, at a January tour of his lab in the R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy.

SWEHSC Delivers With Collaboration, Research Success

Service-Learning Course Opens Doors for Bilingual Students

PeerWORKS apprentices gain the education and work experience needed to become a behavioral health paraprofessional, placing them in a unique position to reach out and support individuals in recovery through their own lived experiences.

Training Program Turns Lived Experiences into Peer Support

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Among UArizona Health Sciences’ first Black faculty in their college, department, division or role are (from left) Nafis Shamsid-Deen, MD, FCCP; Victoria Murrain, DO; Jocelyn Nelms, MS, NEd, RN; Sheila Hill Parker, DrPH, MPH, MS; James C. Dunn, Sr., MD; and Marie Chisholm-Burns, PharmD, PhD, MPH, MBA.

Health Sciences Black Faculty on Diversity, Inspiring Change

(From left) Assistant research professor Laurent Martin, PhD, and Mohab Ibrahim, MD, PhD, check the intensity of green light in a laboratory. In clinical trials. Dr. Ibrahim has shown the value of using of green light therapy for chronic pain resulting from migraine and fibromyalgia.

Physician-Scientist Finds Purpose in a Life Devoted to Pain

Delivering Health Care Solutions Through Device Design

Glen Fogerty, PhD, MBA (third from left), College of Medicine – Phoenix admissions and recruitment associate dean, with his admissions team (L-R): Alex Hughes, Mark Priolo, Dr. Fogerty, Enjoli Pescheta, Julie Chiu, Chip Young, Shari Carbajal and Sam Blair.

Workforce Development at Heart of PCP Scholarship Success

Felicia Goodrum, PhD, co-leads Pandemic Control, Prediction and Preparedness, one of three research areas of focus for the Aegis Consortium.

Researchers Determined to Prevent Viruses From Winning

(From left) Tucson Fire Capt. John Gulotta, professor Jeff Burgess, MD, MS, MPH, and Chief Paul Moore have worked closely for 30 years to help reduce risks to firefighter health in Tucson and around the globe.

Improving Firefighter Health Through Research

Lydia Kennedy (center), senior director of the UArizona Health Sciences Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, speaks to about 75 attendees at the annual Dia de Los Muertos blessing ceremony in the Health Sciences Library. The altar behind her is filled with photos and remembrences from Health Sciences faculty, staff and students.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Reflection of Health Sciences