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 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 houses the Institute for Rural Health Research, the UA Center for Convergent Bioscience & Medicine and the UA Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society and engages in research to support its mission.
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 Research Professor with the College of Community Health Sciences, has been selected as UA’s recipient of the 2025 Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award.
Twenty-six graduates of the UAB Heersink School of Medicine were recognized at The University of Alabama College of Community Health Sciences Senior Banquet held May 15 at Cypress Inn Pavilion in Tuscaloosa. As a regional campus of the Heersink School of Medicine, the College provides clinical education for a portion of third- and fourth-year medical students.
Eighteen students studying to become physicians, dentists and other health-care providers and who want to practice in rural Alabama communities were recognized April 26 at a College of Community Health Sciences convocation. The students are part of the College’s 2024-25 classes of Rural Medical Scholars, Rural Dental Scholars and Rural Community Health Scholars programs.
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