Allied Health
What is Allied Health?
Allied health promotes and protects the health of people and the communities where they live, learn, work and play. While doctors treat illness and injury once they occur, those in the allied health field are invested in preventing people from getting sick. We focus on promoting wellness through healthy behaviors, tracking disease outbreaks, creating laws and policies that benefit the health of the population, and investigating and decreasing health disparities.
The undergraduate Allied Health degree is accredited by .
What Will I Learn?
As a allied health student, you will engage in a wide array of classes to help deepen your understanding of community and population health. This includes: community health and personal wellness, epidemiology and communicable disease, health administration and health policy, social and behavioral sciences.
Faculty Feature: ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï Mentored Investigator Award
Dr. Susan Mayfield-Johnson is the ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï Mentored Investigator with the Mississippi Center for Clinical and Translational Research in Obesity at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Her research assesses the effectiveness of a Community Health Worker model on the continued care and management of cardiovascular disease among patients at federally qualified health centers and community health centers in the Mississippi Delta.
Availability
| Degree Plan | Availability |
|---|---|
| Online 100% |
- Health Administrator
- Medical/Health Services Administrator
- Health Educator
- Health Manager
- Anna Kate Stanford, 2014,
Director of Ambulatory Operations – Otolaryngology & Communicative Sciences, University of Mississippi Medical Center
- Kayleigh Shorter, 2016,
School Health Coordinator, The Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi