The University of Alabama College of Community Health Sciences is dedicated to improving and promoting the health of individuals and communities. The College accomplishes its mission through leadership in medical and health-related education, the provision of direct patient care and research.
Education
- The College is home to one of the nation’s oldest and largest family medicine residencies and it recently launched a psychiatry residency. The College also offers post-residency fellowships and graduate degree programs in population health, translational science and medicine, and rural community health.
- In its role as a regional campus of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine, the College provides the third and fourth years of clinical education and training to a portion of medical students.
- Through a series of nationally recognized pipeline programs, the College recruits and mentors students from rural Alabama who want to return to their hometowns or similar communities to practice medicine or to practice in other health professions.
Health Care
- The College operates University Medical Center, with six locations that together comprise the largest multi-specialty community medical practice in West Alabama.
- The College also operates the UA Student Health Center and Pharmacy and Capstone Hospitalist Group.
Research
- The College engages in research to support its mission and houses the Institute for Rural Health Research, the MRI Research Center and the UA Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society. Though not housed within CCHS, the College played a significant role in recruiting the faculty members who comprise the UA Center for Convergent Science & Biomedicine, which works to overcome obstacles that keep promising drug therapies in the laboratory from translating into treatments for patients.
Departments
Sports Medicine
Committed to impacting the field of sports medicine through innovative and practical clinical teaching and training.
Surgery
Providing comprehensive education and training for future generations of physicians and delivering the most advanced care to patients from across the region.
Translational Science and Medicine
Advancing the future of health care by educating the next generation of leaders in translational therapeutics and drug delivery technologies.
Newsroom
Congratulations
Dr. M.N.V. Ravi Kumar, Distinguished University Research Professor with CCHS, received the Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Association of Indian Pharmaceutical Scientists.
Our Mission
We are dedicated to improving and promoting the health of individuals and communities in rural Alabama and the Southeast region through leadership in medical and health-related education, primary care and population health; the provision of high quality, accessible health care services; and research and scholarship.
Core Values
- Integrity
- Learning
- Innovation
- Transparency
- Social Accountability
- Patient-Centeredness
- Interprofessional Collaboration