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Center
for Minority Health
* Graduate School of Public Health University of Pittsburgh
The mission of the Center
for Minority Health (CMH) at the Graduate School of Public Health, University
of Pittsburgh, is to address issues and provide leadership for meeting
health needs of minority populations through research, education and training,
health policy development, and community service. The mission of the Center
is closely tied to (1) the Nation's prevention agenda and programs for
reductions in health disparities as established in Healthy People 2000
and (2) the elimination of selected racial and ethnic disparities by 2010
as committed to in the 1998 Race and Health Initiative and health objectives
in the forthcoming Healthy People 2010.
National institute
for General Medical Sciences Division
of Minority Opportunities in Research
The Division of Minority Opportunities
in Research administers research and research training programs aimed
at increasing the number of minority biomedical scientists. Support is
available at the undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral, and faculty levels,
as well as for education and research infrastructure improvements. The
division has three components: Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC)
Branch, Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS), and Branch Special
Initiatives.
Teaching
Tolerance
In response to an alarming increase
in hate crime among youth, the Southern Poverty Law Center began the Teaching
Tolerance project in 1991 as an extension of the Center's legal and educational
efforts. Through the generous support of Center donors, Teaching Tolerance
offers free or low-cost resources to educators at all levels. Teaching
Tolerance magazine is distributed free twice a year to more than a half-million
educators throughout the U.S. and in 70 other countries. Its editors welcome
contributions of writing and artwork that address classroom themes of
tolerance, respect and community building.
Center
for Ethnicity, Culture and Health
The Center for
Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health, established in 1998, provides
a forum for basic and applied public health research on relationships
among ethnicity, culture, socioeconomic status and health. The Center
seeks to develop new interdisciplinary frameworks for understanding these
relationships while promoting effective collaborations among public health
academicians, health providers, and local communities.
Center
for the Study of Health Culture and Society
The Center for the Study
of Health, Culture, and Society was founded in the fall of 1993 to encourage
interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to problems of public health
importance. Since its inception, the Center has sought to create a common
meeting ground for social and health scientists, humanists, and health
professionals interested in exploring the interplay of health, culture,
and society. In addition, the Center has striven to achieve a closer integration
of academic scholarship and health intervention activities; to develop
a global perspective on health that bridges the divide between domestic
and international health issues; and to employ the insights gained from
the Center's activities to develop innovative approaches to teaching,
research, and health policy formation and implementation.
Office
of Cultural Enhancement and Diversity
Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in Medicine The
Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in Medicine (CSREM) at the
University of Kansas School of Medicine was created to encourage diverse,
broad-based medical research and to develop curriculum for medical students
and practitioners which explores diverse issues in health and medicine.
The goals for CSREM are outlined in more detail below.
American
College of Epidemiology Committee on Minority Affairs
School
of Public Healt, Minority Health
The Center pursues multi-disciplinary
research, education and training activities to address the disparity in
health between communities of color and the majority population. The Center
seeks innovative methods for addressing race and ethnicity-based disparities
in health. By working in collaboration with community-based organizations,
clinics and community leaders, faculty expertise is brought to bear on
institutional and grassroots-level problems. Future research projects
will include studies of the barriers to health care among minority groups,
the impact of managed care on minority populations, the infectious and
chronic diseases among minority groups, disease prevention and control,
teen pregnancy and violence and research on the socio-economic, institutional
and cultural factors associated with minority populations. The Center
also targets education and training activities to students enrolled in
the School of Public Health and to practicing health professionals.
Pulier's
Personal Psychiatry And Behavioral Healthcare Resources
Non-US
Government Organizations (national)
Minority
Health Professions Foundation
The Minority Health Professions
Foundation (MHPF) is a nonprofit educational, scientific and charitable
501(c)(3) organization that provides support for professional education,
research and community service that promote optimum health among poor
and minority people. It does this by engaging the collaborative resources,
scholarship and technology of minority health professions schools. The
twelve member institutions of the Foundation include medical, dental,
pharmacy, and veterinary medicine schools in historically African-American
colleges and universities.
University
of North Carolina organizations pertaining to populations of color
* 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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