Mission Statement

The mission of the Hawaii/Pacific Basin AHEC is to improve the health of the underserved through education. There are four main activity areas:

• Educating and recruiting students to health professions from K-12 schools.
• Educating health professions students in the rural and underserved communities of Hawaii, often in multiprofessional teams.
• Recruiting health care professionals to rural and underserved areas and providing continuing education.
• Providing community based and community driven education for all underserved groups in Hawaii. Important areas of concentration are improving video teleconferencing capabilities as well as telemedicine and telehealth utilization, and performing health and health workforce needs assessments.

...Read the Hawaii/Pacific Basin AHEC Grant (U76HP00578)