Pamela Payne-Foster

Pamela Payne-Foster, MD, MPH is the former Professor of Community Medicine/Population Health and Deputy Director of the Institute for Rural Health Research at the University of Alabama School of Medicine. Her work focuses on social health inequities among communities of color. She is also co-founder of AframSouth Inc., a nonprofit based in Montgomery, AL in which HIV prevention is core to their work. She also launched a FM radio station based in Alabama, 94.5 FM (WUMO) along with becoming a recipient of a CDC/ADPH grant where they produce a Black woman’s HIV prevention show “A Woman’s Worth”. Pam received her B.S. degree in Chemistry/Pre-Medicine from Xavier University in Louisiana and her M.S. in Biomedical Sciences and MD from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. She completed her Preventive Medicine/Public Health Residency at State University of New York Stony Brook where she also completed her MPH at Columbia University.