Community Health | Innovative Approaches | Collaborative Research
We share a commitment to the creation of an enriching and supportive academic environment in which students pursue excellence in medical education.
The department collaborates with more than 300 community and rural physicians to provide quality clinical education and didactic experiences for medical students.
Department faculty members are internationally recognized experts in their areas of study. Our faculty pursue investigator-initiated studies on a broad range of individual and group health behavior and population studies.
Through the Center of American Indian and Minority Health and student-run Hope Clinic, faculty and students are deeply involved in raising the health status of American Indians and rural America.
Department Chair, Cathy McCarty, PhD, MPH, HEC-C
Our department seeks to improve health outcomes and healthcare access in rural Minnesota and American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities through medical student education and community-engaged translational research.
