Tag: Health Disparities: Page 17

International

Events

EventsJUNEJune 6-92001 National Mental Health Association Conference“Justice for All: Addressing America’s Mental Health Disparities”Hyatt Regency Hotel on Capitol HillWashingtonPhone: (800) 969-6642Web: www.nmha.orgJune 12-13Macalester Forum on Higher Education“Competitive Advantage and Common Purpose in American Higher Education”Macalester CollegeSt. Paul, Minn.Contact: (651) 696-6207June 13-15Conference on Multicultural Affairs/Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities20th Annual Meeting“Social Justice — Racial Justice: […]

May 23, 2001

Health

North Carolina Researchers to Investigate Racial Differences in Health

North Carolina Researchers to Investigate Racial Differences in HealthCHAPEL HILL, N.C. Differences in treatment and outcomes between Blacks and Whites in North Carolina will be the focus of a new program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The program, based at the school’s Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, will […]

January 31, 2001

Faculty & Staff

Public Health Imperative: Prescription For Change

Public Health Imperative: Prescription For ChangeNew public-health schools at Black colleges offer chance to graduate more Black  studentsJACKSON, Miss. — Growing up in the Mississippi Delta, Rodrick Jordan saw firsthand how poverty and inadequate health care debilitated and diminished the lives of Black people he knew. That early exposure to deprivation and disease inspired Jordan […]

July 5, 2000

African-American

Washington Briefs

Congress Hears Support For Completion GrantsWASHINGTON — Leaders of the TRIO community made their case for new college completion grants before a congressional committee late last month.The plan, part of President Clinton’s budget, would provide $35 million for such completion grants, which would help students enter and stay in college. Colleges that participate in the […]

April 26, 2000

Health

High Hopes for Health Bill

High Hopes for Health BillWASHINGTON — Support is growing in Congress and the Clinton administration for legislation that would increase the status of the federal office on minority health — and, in the process, create new funding opportunities for Black college medical schools.Among other goals, the Health Care Fairness Act provides new support to academic […]

February 2, 2000

Latinx

Medical Research Grants Shortchange HBCUs, but Science Bill Looks Promising

Medical Research Grants Shortchange HBCUs, but Science Bill Looks PromisingWASHINGTON — Historically Black colleges are getting just a small piece of the medical research pie, says Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill., who is trying to see that Congress takes some action on the issue this fall.HBCUs in 1997 received less than 1 percent of all higher […]

November 10, 1999

Health

Legislators Told Health Budget Should Target People of Color

Legislators Told Health Budget Should Target People of ColorRepublicans in Congress are talking about a multibillion dollar increase to double funding on health research next year. A Howard University professor is trying to ensure that healthcare programs for people of color get a similar increase.A doubling of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget would […]

June 23, 1999