About Us

The Northern Rhode Island Area Health Education Center has been in operation since April of 2006 with an organizational mission to “foster academic, training, and community collaborations that benefit the public by improving the supply and distribution of a high quality, culturally sensitive, interdisciplinary work force that transcends barriers and supplies people with the care they deserve.”

nriAHEC Service Areas and Counties
• Woonsocket
• North Smithfield
• Cumberland
• Burriville
• Glocester
• Smithfield
• Lincoln
• Foster
• Scituate
• Coventry
• Providence & Kent Counties

In fulfilling the mission set forth by the Rhode Island AHEC Network, Northern RI AHEC will focus on the following strategies in the Northern RI area:

• Develop health careers recruitment programs in underserved rural and urban areas for under-represented and disadvantaged populations
• Support the community-based training of primary care health professions students and residents in health professional shortage areas and medically underserved areas, including multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary training
• Provide information dissemination, educational support and technical assistance to reduce professional isolation, increase retention and enhance the practice environment
• Promote improved health and increased prevention in a manner that responds to defined community needs, with emphasis on underserved areas and populations having demonstrated serious unmet health care needs