News Releases

Center receives $7.8M NIH grant to address environmental health challenges

June 29, 2023

The funding will allow the Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center to continue research efforts focusing on environmental and health challenges in arid lands, including the Southwest.

SWEHSC research led by Karletta Chief, PhD, involves assessing short-term exposures and risk perceptions on the Navajo Nation following the catastrophic Gold King Mine spill in 2015.

Banner Health and UArizona College of Medicine – Phoenix partner to increase residency and fellowship positions

June 23, 2023

The new openings will help alleviate the severe physician shortage facing Arizona by growing the number of specialty-trained physicians through the partnership by more than 60%.

People of color receive less suicide prevention care at emergency departments

June 22, 2023

A study found racial and ethnic differences in the suicide prevention care provided to patients with alcohol use disorder at U.S. emergency departments.

A study led by researchers in the College of Medicine – Tucson’s Department of Family and Community Medicine found that suicide prevention care administered at emergency departments varied by race or ethnicity among people with alcohol use disorder.

Renowned scientist joins UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson as chair of the Department of Physiology

June 20, 2023

Dr. Mingyu Liang comes to the UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson from the Medical College of Wisconsin, where he served in numerous leadership roles.

Arizona Area Health Education Center welcomes CERE as Regional AHEC Center

June 20, 2023

The Center for Excellence in Rural Education will support health care and health education in the eastern Arizona counties of Gila, Graham and Greenlee.

Academic-community educational partnerships like the one between the Arizona Area Health Education Center Program and the Center for Excellence in Rural Education aim to improve the supply and distribution of health care professionals in rural areas. The AzAHEC-CERE partnership will serve Gila, Graham and Greenlee counties, which are home to many small towns including Payson, Arizona (pictured).

ABOR approves establishment of College of Health Sciences at UArizona Health Sciences

June 16, 2023

The University of Arizona College of Health Sciences will focus on graduate programs to fill positions of need in the health care community.

ABRC grant supports RNA research in cardiovascular diseases

June 12, 2023

Dr. Tobias Jakobi hopes to find ways for physicians to identify and treat heart diseases sooner.

UArizona Health Sciences researchers receive Flinn seed grants to develop health care innovations

June 8, 2023

Seven research teams at the University of Arizona Health Sciences received funding to advance new products or services addressing significant clinical needs.

Seven University of Arizona Health Sciences reseachers were awarded seed grants through through the Flinn Foundation Seed Grants to Promote Translational Research Program, which offers funding to research teams affiliated with an Arizona university, research institution or health care system.

EPA awards UArizona $10M for new environmental justice center

June 7, 2023

A $10 million grant will support and implement environmental and energy justice projects across four states and the U.S. Pacific Islands.

A $10 million grant from the EPA will allow researchers to advance environmental justice, which is defined as the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations and policies.

Five UArizona Health Sciences researchers selected for Career Development Awards

June 1, 2023

The University of Arizona Health Sciences Career Development Awards program supports the development of new research by promising young investigators.