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Jill De ZapienUnder the leadership of Jill Guernsey de Zapien, the Associate Dean for Community Programs, the UA Zuckerman College of Public Health pursues an integral part of its mission: promoting health equality and responding to health disparities that are based on ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, lifestyle preferences, health status, nationality and geographical location.

Numerous initiatives and programs that focus on the elimination of health disparities are encompassed within our college's offices and centers, community activities and partnerships.

Centers and Initiatives

Canyon Ranch Center for Prevedntion and Health Promotion
This center makes significant contributions to the field of intervention science in chronic disease prevention and control and thereby contributes to the reduction in health disparities and the improvement in health status of multiethnic communities primarily in the Arizona-Sonora, Mexico border region. Specifically, the center focuses on interventions that address diabetes and associated obesity and depression, harnessing community action to change behavior, policy, and the environment. More...

Center for Health Equality
This center works to eradicate health disparities in our state by integrating research, training and community outreach and focusing on diabetes and substance abuse in Native American and Hispanic communities, particularly on the Southside of Tucson and the community of Hardrock on the Navajo Nation. This integration of College members and community representatives is critical to the community outreach mission of our college. In addition, 20 MPH, Latino Health, and Epidemiology fellows provide direct community outreach. More...

Rural Health Office
Established through an Arizona legislative appropriation more than 23 years ago, the College’s Rural Health Office (RHO) has provided an extensive framework for outreach collaboration with underserved communities in Arizona as well as throughout the Southwest and internationally.

The RHO serves as a major link to rural community clinics and public health departments, Indian Health Service hospitals and rural critical access hospitals, and tribal and non-tribal EMS systems. The RHO also collaborates with communities in working to increase access to care, provide disease-prevention and health-promotion activities, enhance rural health infrastructure and build long-term partnerships to decrease health disparities in underserved communities. More...