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Faculty & Staff

North Carolina Nursing Departments Launch Health Disparities Center

North Carolina Nursing Departments Launch Health Disparities Center DURHAM, N.C.The Departments of Nursing at North Carolina Central University and Winston-Salem State University and the School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently launched the Center for Innovation in Health Disparities Research (CIHDR). The new center is one of eight university-partnered […]

March 26, 2003

Grants & Awards

Arizona State University’s College of Business will receive a $50 million gift from Wm. Polk Carey, chairman of New York City-based investment firm W.P. Carey & Co. LLC and grandson of John Samuel Armstrong, the legislative founder of Arizona State. The gift will endow the W.P. Carey School of Business at ASU. Fisk University (Tenn.) […]

February 26, 2003

N.C., Maryland Schools to Create Health Disparities Research Centers

N.C., Maryland Schools to Create Health Disparities Research Centers CHAPEL HILL, N.C.Researchers from three North Carolina universities have received grants totaling $1.5 million from the National Institute of Nursing Research to create a Center for Innovation in Health Disparities Research. The National Institutes of Health agency funded three related grants to support the new center, […]

November 20, 2002

University of Alabama to Spend $28 Million on Research About Strokes Among Blacks, Southerners

November 6, 2002

Events

EventsOCTOBEROct. 23-25The Colorado Workplace Equity Coalition Inc.18th Annual Conference“Synchronicity” Working Together in UnityPueblo Convention CenterPueblo, Colo.For more information: www.cwequity.comOct. 24-27Association of American Colleges and Universities4th Biennial Diversity and Learning Conference“Education for a World Lived in Common”Hyatt Regency, St. LouisPhone: (202) 387-3760E-mail: [email protected]: www.aacu-edu.orgOct. 26-29Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities16th Annual Conference“Hispanic Empowerment: America’s Key to […]

October 9, 2002

Letters

LettersDear Editor, I work for the North Carolina Health Careers Access Program (NC-HCAP) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. NC-HCAP is a program that prepares underrepresented minorities and people from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds to become competitive applicants of undergraduate, graduate and professional schools. Generally, these students are prospective health professionals. The goal […]

July 17, 2002

Leadership & Policy

Criticism of Howard University Hospital

Criticism of Howard University Hospital Residency Programs Raises QuestionsBy Cheryl D. FieldsWASHINGTONAn unfavorable assessment by the Accrediting Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) of the residency programs at Howard University Hospital has generated a flurry of activity, including a major story in the Washington Post and the subsequent reorganization of the oversight committee that manages […]

June 19, 2002

University of Louisville Stakes Black Cancer Reduction Rates on Filling Endowed Chair

University of Louisville Stakes Black Cancer Reduction Rates on Filling Endowed ChairLOUISVILLE, Ky.The University of Louisville will try to recruit a top national researcher for a position created last month to lead efforts to reduce cancer rates among Blacks. The university formed an endowed chair in oncology as part of a public-private partnership to boost […]

June 5, 2002

UNEQUAL TREATMENT: CONFRONTING RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISPARITIES IN HEALTH CARE

UNEQUAL TREATMENT: CONFRONTING RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISPARITIES IN HEALTH CAREFor many in the U.S. health care establishment and the media, the March 2002 release of “Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care” by the Institute of Medicine brought unexpected news. The 562-page report, which reviewed more than 100 studies, concluded that minorities […]

May 22, 2002

Race Matters Health Care

Race Matters Health CareExperts say eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities is the civil rights issue of our dayWASHINGTONWhen the National Academies’ Institute of Medicine released its report earlier this year documenting that minorities, regardless of income, education and access, were discriminated against in health care, many African Americans in the medical and health care […]

May 22, 2002

Calling on the Black Community’s Best and Brightest

Calling on the Black Community’s Best and BrightestI was one of those people who associate editor Robin Smiles in her article “Race Matters in Health Care” says “yawned” when the Institute of Medicine released its report recently, which documented that minorities, regardless of income, education and access, were discriminated against in health care. I thought […]

May 22, 2002

Leadership & Policy

Meharry, Vanderbilt to Fund Study of Cancer Among Blacks

Meharry, Vanderbilt to Fund Study of Cancer Among BlacksNASHVILLE, Tenn. A $22 million grant announced last month for researchers at Meharry Medical College and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Institute will fund a multistate study to explain why Blacks die of cancer at disproportionately high rates. The five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute will be used for […]

November 7, 2001

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