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Center for Pacific Islander Health

Overview

The Center for Pacific Islander Health at the UAMS Northwest Regional Campus, a multi-disciplinary center focusing on research, community programs, training, and policy. We work with Pacific Islander communities in the United States, the U.S. territories of American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S.-affiliated Compact of Free Association nations of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau.

Read more about our work and our plans.

Center News

UAMS Northwest Regional Campus Awarded $2.1 Million for Marshallese Diabetes Prevention Research

UAMS Announces Center for Pacific Islander Health, $250,000 Grant for Pacific Islander Research Program

Pacific Islander health center focusing on research, training

Healthier islanders is UAMS unit’s goal

Group fighting Marshallese cancer travels to Arkansas: Islanders travel to Arkansas to develop survivorship plan

Contact Us

Center for Pacific Islander Health at UAMS
1125 N. College Avenue
Fayetteville, AR 72703

Pearl McElfish, Ph.D.
Director
479-713-8680
PAMcElfish@uams.edu

Wanna Bing
Project Manager
479-713-8688
WIBing@uams.edu

Sheldon Riklon, M.D.
Medical Director
479-713-8000
SRiklon@uams.edu

About Center for Pacific Islander Health

The center is a reflection of the growing Pacific Islander population in the southern US and builds upon the existing community health and research work UAMS has done and continues to do with Pacific Islanders in northwest Arkansas.

Learn more about the center
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Mailing Address: 1125 N College Ave., Fayetteville, AR 72703
Phone: (479) 713-8000
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