Health & Food Security

Arizona Aids Education and Training Center*

Focus on education for American Indian tribes in Arizona; develop and implement policies to offer AIDS/HIV rapid testing in area hospital ER and OB/GYN departments

American Red Cross 

Arizona Aids Policy Alliance *

Reesearch and development of policy for incarcerated persons in the Arizona penal system

Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS)

Evaluation focus

Binational Office of Border Health *

Arizona Department of Health

This office assesses health disparities in Arizona/Mexico border communities. Fellows have conducted health assessments and focus groups and began a diabetes study in Douglas and Agua Prieta, Sonora. The agency has worked to develop policy recommendations on binational use of facilities.

Carondelet Foundation*

Work with southside Tucson school projects

Community Food Bank Food Security Center *

3003 S Country Club Rd.
PO 26727 Tucson, AZ 85726

Work with food security issues, nutrition education, gardening, gleaning and more

COMPASS Health*

UA Cooperative Extension - Compadres Project*

Cottonwood de Tucson*

Focus on Navajo youth in rehab

Holy Cross Hospital/Nogales*

Development of employee wellness program

Intermountain Centers for Human Development*

Work with young adults transitioning out of foster care

Mujer Sana ~ Healthy Woman* 

AIDS/HIV prevention with women 

Native Seeds Search *

Seeks to preserve seed crops related to native cultures.

Pima County Department of Health *

West Nile Virus and Nutrition projects 

Pima Prevention Partnership*

Project evaluation; domestic violence prevention report

Pio Decimo Center
Catholic Social Services

Focus on needs of families through education and social services. Working in Greater Barrio Santa Rosa, bordering Rio Nuevo, near Hope VI and City of South Tucson, placements for students involved with needs assessment, program planning for HUD 202 elderly housing project, strategic planning and evaluation.

Planned Parenthood of Southern Arizona*

Work with Teen Advisory Group

Senior Companion Project

TIHAN - Tucson Interfaith AIDS/HIV Network

Tucson Birthing Center  (now El Rio)*

Work with centering groups

Tucson Medical Center

UA Cooperative Extension Compadres Project*

Sunnyside School District - increasing physical activity in classrooms in five minute increments

UA Zuckerman College of Public Health

Division of Community and Environmental Health*

Program evaluation working with Martin Luther King Senior Center

Mobile Health Clinic *

Vision screening, dental services; prenatal and post-partum care

Office of Rural Health *

UA Rural Health Office at Mariposa Community Health Center in Nogales, evaluating programs for obese women. AHEC grant to assess farmworker health needs in Cochise County.

UA Public Administration and Policy *

Applied Behavioral Health Policy Institute
ASU Phoenix, AZ
Applied Behavioral Health Policy (ABHP) works to make the world a better place for people with behavioral health disabilities. ABHP works with community agencies to identify and implement evidence-based strategies for the treatment of psychiatric and substance abuse disorders.

UA Department of Risk Management and Safety *

Environmental health research and projects on UA campus.

UMC Cardiac Rehabilitation *

Cardiac rehab services