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The Department of Community Medicine and Health Care is a Basic Science department within the School of Medicine . It consists of 15 full-time faculty and over 20 support staff, with a research portfolio representing a total commitment of approximately $3.7 million in extramural funding in 2011. The department’s research covers cancer epidemiology, substance use disorders, health services evaluation, health law and ethics, health behavior, public health dentistry, HIV/AIDS, and global health. More than ninety adjunct faculty have clinical and MPH teaching appointments. The Department serves the School of Medicine as the academic home of faculty in the social, behavioral and public health sciences as well as health law and medical ethics. Recently, the Pappanikou Center for Developmental Disabilities was transferred to the Department.

The mission of the Department is to provide education, research, and service to the University, its Health Center, and the broader Connecticut community.  The Department offers educational opportunities for individuals pursuing careers in the patient-care professions, public health and the biomedical sciences, advancing knowledge through epidemiological, biostatistical, clinical, ethical, legal, behavioral and social research, developing and evaluating innovative health care services and prevention programs, and assisting health care and public health professionals improve their effectiveness through consultation and continuing educational programs.

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• Susan Kiene, Ph.D. joins the University of Connecticut School of Medicine faculty from Brown University. She has a Ph.D.in Social Psychology from the University of Connecticut and an M.P.H. (expected) with a concentration in Global Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. Her research interests include: HIV prevention, alcohol-involved HIV-sexual risk behavior, family planning and contraception, and health behavior change.
• Stephen Schensul, Ph.D. was awarded The Career Achievement Award from the Society for Medical Anthropology which biannually honors an individual who has advanced the field of medical anthropology through career-long contributions to theory or method , and who has been successful in communicating the relevance of medical anthropology to broader publics.
• First Prize in public health category, 2011 British Medical Association Medical Book competition for Babor et al. (2010) Drug Policy and the Public Good, Oxford University Press. (Awarded to the book's 12 authors)
• Recent faculty books (External)

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