American Health Association EmPOWERED to Serve Business Accelerator™, Mid-South empowers and invests in social entrepreneurs and businesses that foster equitable access to good health throughout the Greater Memphis community. The goal of the Mid-South-focused Business Accelerator is to create business solutions to meet challenges our community faces by changing behaviors, expanding access to resources and improving the long-term health of [...]

Recently, the Center for PH-IDEAS, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funded project, a collaboration between MEMPHIS AND SHELBY COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT and University of Memphis School of Public Health, organized its first Meet-and-Greet social and hosted 18 scholars from the SCHD. Through this program, current health department employees will be trained and educated in public health to support public health workforce efforts [...]