AHEC Hawaii

The MISSION of the Hawai‘i/Pacific Basin AHEC is to improve the health of the underserved through education.

There are four primary activity areas:

Educating and recruiting students to health professions from K-16 schools.
Educating health professions students in the rural and underserved communities of Hawai‘i, often in multi-professional teams.
Recruiting healthcare professionals to rural and underserved areas and providing continuing education.
Conduct health profession workforce assessments to determine shortages.
Areas of Concentration:

Recruitment, placement, and retention activities to address community and state health workforce needs.
Performing health and health workforce needs assessments.
Improving distance learning and telehealth utilization.
Our GOAL is to facilitate access to an abundant supply of knowledgeable and culturally competent providers through training and recruitment partnerships that will improve the diversity, distribution and quality of the health profes