Our department’s mission is to develop leaders to shape tomorrow’s health care. In order to do this, we must extend our efforts beyond the walls of the classroom and beyond graduation. Through unique programming and opportunities like the ones listed below, we will make a difference in the lives of our students and alumni.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

• Academy for Addressing Health Disparities: a two-week program, dedicated to increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of students in graduate level health care management education and leadership
• Blazers & Suits: an initiative developed by and for MSHA and Executive MSHA alumni who identify with underrepresented minority groups. These alumni started a private LinkedIn page and meet at the NAHSE Annual Meeting and ACHE Congress. These dedicated alumni are working to support each other’s career development and to help the Department recruit and retain excellent students. They provide important guidance in the Department’s journey towards inclusive excellence.

Alumni and Student Success

• Women’s Leadership Initiative: provides programming to advance women in the health care field, mentoring efforts, student and alumni professional development opportunities, and supports scholarships
• Leadership and Executive Access Program (LEAP): provides extended time for healthcare executives to meet with students, faculty, alumni and community leaders
• Graduate Programs in Health Administration Alumni Association (GPHA): offers career support, such as – alumni to alumni mentoring, career development, educational webinars, networking events (regional receptions and conference events like ACHE)
• UAB Health System Workforce Program: connects first-year students with executives at UAB Medicine where "they are treated as full-time employees, not students,” says Nigel Brown, executive director of Transformation & Performance Excellence, UAB Health System.

Ready to support an initiative? You can:

• Make a gift.
• Get involved.
  • Academy for Addressing Health Disparities – contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  • Blazers & Suits – contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  • Alumni and Student Success – contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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