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Dr. Pamela Payne-Foster


About the Author

Dr. Pamela Payne Foster is a Preventive Medicine and Public Health physician who currently resides in Montgomery and Tuscaloosa, Alabama.  She is Deputy Director of the Institute for Rural Health Research at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa,

Alabama.  She has worked most of her career in the field of minority health through academic - community partnerships, serving both African-American and Latino communities within and near Long Island, New York, Atlanta, Georgia, Washington, D.C. and now Alabama.  She is married to William Foster, Jr. a social worker.  In 2006, they founded a nonprofit organization, AframSouth, Inc.; a culturally-based educational and health resource center focused on human and health development issues in African-American communities, particularly in the South.