Sonja Harris-Haywood, MD |
Sonja Harris-Haywood, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Haywood’s health disparities research is made possible in large part to grants she received from the NCMHD Loan Repayment Program.
Her primary research interest is in
understanding cultural competency – developing a relevant
definition as well as practice models that take advantage of that
definition. Haywood said, “While this (cultural competency) concept
is widely accepted as a mechanism for improving outcomes for
culturally-diverse populations but how we define it, measure its
presence, and test its association with health outcomes in a primary
care setting is still uncertain.” |