General Information on Minority Health Resources (I)

*National Institutes of Health: Office of Research on Minority Health [ORMH]

Office of Research on Minority Health is committed to shaping the national research agenda for improving the health status of minority Americans and for encouraging the participation of minorities in all aspects of biomedical and behavioral research. It accomplishes its mission through partnerships with the institutes and centers of the National Institutes of Health and with other Federal agencies and outside organizations.

The goal of ORMH is to uncover new scientific knowledge that will lead to better health for minority Americans throughout the lifespan. Specific information on this site include prenatal health and how to reduce infant mortality; studies of childhood and adolescent lead poisoning, HIV infection/AIDS, and alcohol and drug use; research in adult populations focused on cancer, diabetes, obesity, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, mental disorders, asthma, visual impairments and alcohol use; and training for minority faculty and students at all stages of the educational experience.

Office of Minority Health

The Office of Minority Health (OMH) was created by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in 1985 as a result of the Report of the Secretary's Task Force on Black and Minority Health. Under the direction of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health, OMH advises the Secretary and the Office of Public Health and Science (OPHS) on public health issues affecting American Indians and Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders, Blacks/African Americans, and Hispanics/Latinos.

The mission of OMH is to improve the health of racial and ethnic populations through the development of effective health policies and programs that help to eliminate disparities in health. OMH works closely with sister agencies within HHS and their minority health representatives. Regional minority health consultants serve as OMH representatives in the 10 HHS regional offices.

OMH works closely with established State offices of minority health, and provides technical assistance, as requested, to minority community groups seeking to establish similar entities within their states.

CDC Office of the Associate Director for Minority Health

The mission and goal at the Office of the Associate Director for Minority Health are based on this philosophy: for minority health initiatives to be effective, they must be operational in the centers, institutes, offices, and programs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). These initiatives, where appropriate, must be transferred to state and local government and nongovernment agencies and organizations.

The Harvard Journal of Minority Public Health

The Harvard Journal of Minority Public Health is the premiere venue for dialogue on the health concerns of communities of color. It reports on health services delivery and research technology, community intervention projects and health policy and management strategies as they affect the health of traditionally underserved populations.

The Journal is published quarterly and is dedicated to investigating the health of ethnic and racial minority groups in all its aspects. It incorporates both top-flight peer-reviewed medical articles and a news section that addresses the topical health and medical issues of the day from the perspectives of racial and ethnic minority groups. The news section is written in a manner accessible to the interested lay person, including health educators, community activists, students and journalists.

The Data Council of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

This site details a compilation of information about virtually all major data collection systems sponsored by HHS. The Directory updates and expands upon the 1995 HHS Directory of Minority Health and Human Services Data. The HHS Directory of Health and Human Services Data Resources was designed to include data resources with current utility or the potential for use by a wide variety of audiences. These data projects and systems include recurring surveys and research studies either maintained or sponsored by HHS. In general, data from the approximately 200 systems and projects described in this Directory are available in published and aggregate form.

Health Web
HealthWeb is a collaborative project of the health sciences libraries of the Greater Midwest Region (GMR) of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) and those of the Committee for Institutional Cooperation. Currently there are over twenty actively participating member libraries. This project is supported by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) under contract #N01-LM-6-3523 with the University of Illinois at Chicago

Medical Matrix
Medical Matrix provides links to over 3000 categories. You will need to register to use this site; however, there is no charge and the number and quality of links is worth the time to fill in the webform.

Medweb
MedWeb is a catalog of biomedical and health related web sites maintained by the staff of the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University. MedWeb's primary audience is the academic and research community at Emory

* Briefs on each of these sites were culled from their mission statements.
** Links without briefs have no mission statements or statements of intent on their sites

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