Pamela Payne-Foster

Professor

Dr. Pamela Payne-Foster is a preventive medicine/public health physician and professor of community medicine and population health. She is also deputy director for community outreach for the College of Community Health Science’s Institute for Rural Health Research. 

Payne-Foster teaches medical students in the college’s Community Rural Medicine Clerkship, Community Rural Medicine Ambulatory Acting Internship and is a frequent special topics and co-enrolled elective instructor. She also teaches and interacts with undergraduate and graduate students in her role as coordinator of health-related service-learning activities and in research endeavors in rural and underserved communities in Alabama. 

Payne-Foster has research interests in health disparities, including HIV/AIDS, obesity and diabetes; bioethics and medical ethics; and diversity and cultural competency issues in health care.