Xavier University of Louisiana Receives $8.3 Million HRSA Grant for Pharmacy Program

Xavier University of Louisiana’s College of Pharmacy has been awarded an $8,362,190 grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Resources.

Over the next three years, the grant will support activities designed to impact the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority students in the pharmacy profession – particularly African Americans – and to provide an educational opportunity focused on the development of culturally competent health professionals who are prepared for leadership in health care practice, education and research.

Further, the grant will provide opportunities for underrepresented minority faculty to develop in an environment that positions them for leadership in education, research, patient care and public service.

Unique to this funding opportunity is a focus on inter-institutional collaboration with health profession programs from other historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs).