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Health Disparities Summit Calls for Accelerated Pace toward Health Equity
The 2012 Science of Eliminating Health Disparities summit was a success! Thousands attended and over one hundred presented new findings and bold ideas including leaders from across the fields of science, policy, and practice. The opening ceremony honored former Congressman Louis Stokes for his dedication to ending health disparities.
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NIH Health Disparities Seminar Series
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) invites you to the next NIH Health Disparities Seminar Series scheduled for Februay 14, 2013. The featured speaker is NHLBI Director, Dr. Gary H. Gibbons.
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Leading cancer researcher appointed NIMHD Clinical Director
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) of the National Institutes of Health has announced that Eddie Reed, M.D., an award-winning physician and internationally recognized cancer researcher, will serve as the clinical director for the NIMHD Intramural Research Program. (more)
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NIH Announces Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
The National Institutes of Health announces the transition of the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) to the National In stitute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD). The transition gives the institute a more defined role in the NIH's research agenda against health disparities, which it defines as differences in the incidence, prevalence, mortality, and burden of diseases and other adverse health conditions that exist among specific population groups. (more)
‘We Have Unfinished Business’
Minority Health Center Now an Institute
Two decades of work to bring attention to the unequal burden of illness and death experienced by racial and ethnic minorities, rural and poor populations in this country has culminated in the creation of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities at NIH. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148) also known as the health care reform law signed by President Obama on Mar. 23, 2010, re-designated the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities to an institute. The official re-designation was announced in the Federal Register on Sept. 13. (more)
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NIMHD
Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for Planning Grants for the NIH National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) (P20)
NOT-RM-13-009
Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for Planning Grants for the NIH Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) Initiative (P20)
NOT-RM-13-008
NIMHD Minority Health and Health Disparities International Research Training (T37)
RFA-MD-13-002
NIMHD Transdisciplinary Collaborative Centers for Research on Men’s Health
RFA-MD-13-004
NIH
Understanding and Promoting Health Literacy (R01)
PAR–10-133
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