Diversity

Centers of Excellence

Funds health professions schools to establish or expand programs for underrepresented minority individuals that improve one or more of the following: student academic performance, recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority faculty, minority health education resources (such as information resources, clinical education, curricula,) faculty and student research on minority health issues, community-based training opportunities at sites remote from the school, and the competitive applicant pool. COEs may provide stipends and create linkages with institutions of higher education, local school districts and other community based entities.

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Health Careers Opportunity Program

Funds schools and other health professions training programs to establish or expand programs that help individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds to enter and graduate from a health or allied health professions program. Projects address all of the following: recruitment; facilitation of entry into health professions training; counseling, mentoring, and other services; education and research training prior to enrollment in health professions training; financial aid information dissemination; exposure to primary health care at community-based providers; and expansion of the competitive applicant pool.

Active grant projects

Program details (including application guidance) from most recent competition

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