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The NIH Summit: The Science of Eliminating Health Disparities explored how the integration of Science, Practice, and Policy furthered this research agenda. More than 4000 scientists, practitioners, and community members showcased the collective contribution of the NIH in the development of new knowledge in the science of eliminating health disparities (more)

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Former NCMHD Council Member named “Genius”
Dr. Regina Benjamin, a former member of the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities advisory council and founder of the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic in, Alabama, has been named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow for 2008. (more)

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NIH Launches Intramural Program at NCMHD
The program will expand research into eliminating health disparities by rejuvenating the intramural research program at the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities. The intramural research program will be a campus-community system with two major components: a health disparities career development component and a health disparities research intervention component. (more)


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