About the Center for Health Disparities
Our Mission
The Center is comprised of a diverse and engaged staff with a mission to promote health-related change and ultimately reduce health disparities among racial and ethnic minorities through research, education, training and community outreach and information dissemination.
Despite overall improvements in health in the United States, there continue to be substantial health disparities within ethnic/racial minority populations (e.g., African-Americans/blacks, Hispanics, Native-Americans, Asians, Pacific Islanders) and underserved majority populations.
Our Vision
USU's newest program addressing societies' most pressing health disparity concerns is eager to research and effect positive health-related change among individuals and populations in greatest need. As it solidifies its operational infrastructure, the Center for Health Disparities' team looks forward to working with current and future partners, both within USU and external community, to recruit and train health care professionals, while empowering the populations they serve, to work together to achieve the best possible health outcomes.
Core Areas
Research
At Uniformed Services University, we have two active laboratories. Both laboratories that research various aspects of obesity for in minorities groups, in particular, African-Americans. These crucial Rresearch programs are intended to help civilians and the military to combat obesity from a physiological and psychological standpoint.
Education
Here at Uniformed Services University, we educate and train our leading military medical students with crucial cultural competency skills. T This training will reduce healthcare disparities by providing practitioners with skills to sensitively navigate within and between culturally diverse populations.
Our university also offers summer programs with research opportunities, that which are made available to high school, college, and graduate students who are members of minority groups. Providing similar training to minority population students interested in careers in healthcare and/or the biomedical sciences will provide heightened awareness and skills that will further reduce health disparities.
CHD Home
About
Who We Are
Partnerships
Education
Equal Health
Events
Research
USUCHD Abstracts
Additional Resources
http://thinkculturalhealth.com/
http://ncmhd.nih.gov/
Affiliations
http://mdhealthdisparities.org/
www.umes.edu/