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About
Hawaiʻi and Pacific Basin Area Health Education Center (AHEC) supports travel and housing costs for students to perform training in rural areas (neighbor islands, US-affiliated Pacific Islands) during all years of school, as well as supports distance learning activities (video teleconferencing), and community based interdisciplinary training programs (one of the programs formerly called Ke Ola). AHEC also performs ongoing research in which students are invited to participate. The research areas include health workforce needs in the Pacific, factors influential in increasing pursuit of health science careers, training providers and patients about healthy lifestyle changes, and health needs of rural communities.
Other AHEC activities include recruitment to health science careers for students of all ages, as well as assistance with applications, finding financial support, research experiences and community partnerships, as well as providing continuing education, community health education and expanding community capacity to create programs to improve health.
AHEC is a federally funded program through the Health Resources and Services Administration. The federal mandate is to improve the diversity, distribution and quality of the health professions workforce. The mission of AHEC: To improve the health of the underserved through education. Activities focus on five primary areas:
- Health Education and recruitment to health professions for students across the state from kindergarten through college
- Educating health professions, students in rural and underserved areas, often in interdisciplinary teams
- Recruitment, retention and continuing education of practicing health professionals in medically underserved areas
- Providing community based and community driven health education in over a dozen community learning centers across the state
- Providing video connectivity for health education, communication and other health care services across the state.
Other programs with which AHEC administers programs: are the NIH Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA), and the HRSA Health Education Training Centers.
Pictured: Hilo high school students attending an AHEC Teen Health Camp in 2015.
Phone: (808) 692-1060 Address 651 Ilalo Street, MEB 224
Honolulu, HI 96813 Link: http://www.ahec.hawaii.edu/
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