Public Health

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UAMS Colleges of Pharmacy, Nursing, Health Professions, Public Health, Make List of Top Graduate Schools for 2024

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By News Staff

LITTLE ROCK — U.S. News & World Report’s annual list of Best Graduate Schools for 2024 ranked the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) colleges of Pharmacy, Nursing, Health Professions and Public Health highly among their peers nationwide.

The UAMS College of Pharmacy was ranked 31st nationwide among all pharmacy colleges. It has produced more than 5,000 graduates since making UAMS its home in 1951. The college offers several dual degree programs, as well as experiential opportunities in specialties from oncology pharmacy to toxicology and solid organ transplant, as well as one of the nation’s few nuclear pharmacy programs.

“I am proud that the UAMS College of Pharmacy continues to rank among the nation’s best,” said Cindy Stowe, Pharm.D., dean of the College of Pharmacy. “This recognition reflects the positive impact that our students, alumni and faculty have here at home and across the country. They lead by example through their passionate commitment to improving the health of all. A high ranking in U.S. News is a strong endorsement of that fact.”

UAMS Colleges of Pharmacy, Nursing, Health Professions, Public Health, Make List of Top Graduate Schools for 2024

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Public Health Alum Uses Gardening Expertise to Help Address Arkansas’ Food Access Issues

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By Kev' Moye

Entire communities having little — or no — access to fresh, healthy foods is a major issue in Arkansas.

There are a multitude of nonprofits, ministries, corporations and citizens working to solve the problem. Jimmy Parks, Dr.PH, an alum of the UAMS Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, is part of a network of people who are teaching and learning about how to grow and share food.

“My community and my family are my life,” Parks said. “It’s not about serving groups or populations. It’s just that being part of a community sometimes involves practical activities that look like service.”

Parks is a self-taught farmer who works with people in many backyard gardens and urban farms in central Arkansas.

Public Health Alum Uses Gardening Expertise to Help Address Arkansas’ Food Access Issues

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People Statewide Celebrate the Life and Contributions of Joe Bates M.D., M.S.

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By Kev' Moye

Joe Bates M.D., M.S., associate dean for public health practice for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman of College of Public Health, died Sept. 29.

Bates — a dedicated husband, family man, health leader and humanitarian — was 90.

“Dr. Joe Bates was a giant of a man who had an immeasurable impact on public health and medicine,” said UAMS Chancellor Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, in a statement Friday. “He was instrumental in the development of the UAMS College of Public Health, the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement and in directing tobacco settlement dollars to public health initiatives. He was brilliant and devoted his life to helping ensure better health for his fellow Arkansans. We are forever grateful to him and will do all we can to carry on his legacy.”

https://news.uams.edu/2023/10/04/people-statewide-celebrate-the-life-and-contributions-of-joe-bates-m-d-m-s/

Dr. Joe Bates speaks to Dr. Mark Williams (right), dean of the UAMS Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, following a community event. Bates, a revered health pioneer, passed away in late September at the age of 90.