Manages or supports NCHSTP's efforts to eliminate disparities in HIV, STD, and TB for identified racial and ethnic minority groups. It has also partnered with such organizations as Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, and Hispanic Serving Institutions to recruit and train minority researchers and public health and medical personnel.

Manages or provides support and coordination for specific activities centered in Tuskegee, Alabama, that are associated with the Public Health Service Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male (1932-74), and for related activities nationwide. These activities include the Tuskegee Health Benefit Program for spouses and offspring of the original participants and the Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care. It has developed a website on the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.

Coordinates and supports NCHSTP activities that address disparities in rates of HIV, STD, and TB in women. Women from some racial and ethnic minority groups bear a disproportionate burden of HIV infection, tuberculosis, and certain STDs.