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Spencer Foreman Award for Outstanding Community Engagement

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UAMS is honored to be a finalist for the AAMC Spencer Foreman Award for Outstanding Community Engagement. Below you will find examples of the excellent work our team has completed to create a better state of health for all.

Journal Articles

Addressing Homelessness and COVID-19 Quarantine: A Streamlined Assessment and Referral Process

A Community Partnership for Home Delivery of Food Boxes to COVID-19 Quarantined and Isolated Families

COVID-19 Disparities Among Marshallese Pacific Islanders

Impact of the INBRE summer student mentored research program on undergraduate students in Arkansas

Integrating Interprofessional Education and Cultural Competency Training to Address Health Disparities

Engagement practices that join scientific methods with community wisdom: designing a patient-centered, randomized control trial with a Pacific Islander community

COVID-19 Outreach

By the numbers:
5,000+ index cases and 13,000+ contacts served through bilingual contact tracing.
More than 1,700 families provided food for safe quarantine.
130+ businesses assessed and aided through COVID relief efforts
More than 90 trilingual educational materials created and distributed

Find more in our COVID CARES Act Update Report Download

What is COVID Navigation?

What is COVID-19 Care Navigation?