Recent News Office of Strategic Health Initiatives Indigenous innovation, health equity initiative marks first-year milestones UH mourns health justice advocate who inspired Hawaiʻi’s medical community Federal funding earmarks to help boost UH research to record $500 million Survey finds Hawaiʻi telemedicine up, obstacles remain 20 for the Next 20: Aimee Malia Grace, University of Hawaii ‘20 for the Next 20’ list features UH employees and alumni UHealthy Hawaiʻi Civil Beat: Hawaii Island Is Getting New Federal Funds To Tackle Health Care Shortages. Is It Enough? Improving rural healthcare goal of new UH research and policy center Health workers for underserved communities supported with $50K grant UH seeks to train more doctors, expand medical school to Maui Hundreds focus on improving Hawaiʻi’s health workforce Initiative seeks to leverage UH System to improve health in Hawaiʻi, Pacific COVID-19 Related News UH graduates record number of community health workers UH-educated community health workers key to COVID-19 response Contact tracers provide essential outreach to Pacific Islanders Survey finds Hawaiʻi telemedicine up, obstacles remain UH trains community health workers to help manage COVID-19 outbreaks UH contact tracing trainees want to help Hawaiʻi’s communities Clinical healthcare professionals needed to become full-time contact tracers Community contact tracer training underway UH begins training COVID-19 contact tracers Hawai’i DOH and UH create contact tracing program
