community outreach

July 18, 2024

UAMS to Provide Contraceptive Services, Education in 14 Rural Arkansas Counties

David Wise

A health care worker points to a pill in a contraceptive box while speaking with a patient.

FAYETTEVILLE — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will provide contraceptive services and reproductive health education to women living in rural Arkansas counties in an effort to prevent unintended pregnancies and to improve access to women’s health care in Arkansas. Through a private philanthropic grant awarded to the UAMS Institute for Community Health…

November 8, 2018

UAMS Students Visit Helena Teens to Showcase Health Care Careers

Spencer Watson

UAMS students visiting KIPP Delta Collegiate High School in Helena to talk about preparing for careers in health care.

UAMS students visited KIPP Delta Collegiate High School in Helena recently to share with the nearly college-bound students the vast opportunities and careers in health care. The event, Raising Exposure & Awareness of Careers in Health (REACH) in the Delta, gave nearly two hundred ninth through 12th grade students the opportunity to ask questions, visit with…

September 18, 2014

UAMS 12th Street Health & Wellness Center to Host Women’s Fitness Event on Sept. 27

Ben Boulden

LITTLE ROCK — A women’s fitness event offering free health screenings and a fitness walk will be held from 8 a.m.-noon Sept. 27 at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) 12th Street Health and Wellness Center at 4010 W. 12th St.

October 10, 2011

UAMS College of Pharmacy Alumni Donate Building for Community Outreach

Nate Hinkel

Oct. 10, 2011 | Vicki and Karrol Fowlkes, of Salem, have donated a Little Rock building to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Pharmacy that will be dedicated to community outreach.

November 30, 2010

Former Astronaut Challenges Students in UAMS Visit

Jon Parham

Nov. 30, 2010 | Former astronaut Bernard A. Harris Jr., M.D., the first African-American to walk in space, told a group of about 200 students that he believed “every person was born to do something special” during a speech at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).