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Association of Minority Health Professions Schools (AMHPS) Mission & History
AMHPS has a three-fold mission that includes:
- Improving the health status of African-Americans and other minorities
- Growing the representation of qualified African-Americans and other minorities in the health professions.
- Strengthening our institutions and programs as well as other programs throughout the nation, which in turn will improve the role of minorities in the provision of health care.
The Association of Minority Health Professions Schools (AMHPS) was established in 1976 by Dr. Louis Sullivan, President Emeritus of the Morehouse School of Medicine, Dr. Walter Bowie, then Dean of the Tuskegee Institute School of Veterinary Medicine, Anthony Rachal, the Executive Vice President of Xavier University of Louisiana, College of Pharmacy, and the late Dr. Charles Walker, then Dean of College of Pharmacy at Florida A&M University. The Association was formed to provide a means by which the need for a national minority health agenda could be effectively addressed.
Today, AMHPS includes 12 historically black medical, dental, pharmacy and veterinary schools. The members include two schools of dentistry, four schools of medicine, five schools of pharmacy and one school of veterinary medicine. To learn more about AMHPS institutions please visit http://www.minorityhealth.org/members.php
Our 12 colleges and universities have educated and trained 50 percent of all African American physicians, 50 percent of all African American dentists, 50 percent of all African American pharmacists and 80 percent of all African American veterinarians in the United States. We have also educated 10 percent of all African Americans with doctorates in the biomedical sciences and related disciples in the United States.
Without our schools there would be a greater under representation of African-American medical and health professionals in the United States. AMHPS continues to have a significant impact in training the nation’s best and brightest biomedical scientists and health professionals of color.
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