CENTER ACTIVITIES

Partnering with University of Maryland – Eastern Shore, the goals of the Center For Health Disparities, our EXPORT Center, will be to:

• Conduct research to systematically investigate issues central to the understanding and amelioration of health disparities (e.g., evaluate recently developed training methods to improve medical providers’ knowledge and skills to reduce health disparities, and explore other bio-behavioral and biomedical contributions to healthcare disparities in minority groups);


• Educate students, faculty, and healthcare professionals about health disparities and methods to reduce disparate treatment and improve healthcare outcomes;


• Develop mutually-beneficial and collaborative research and training partnerships with ethnic/minority community groups (e.g., churches, community health centers and providers, the YMCA, etc.), academic institutions, scientific communities, and medical centers;


• Use culturally-tailored strategies to disseminate specific, health-rele¬vant information to our community partners; and


• Create effective mechanisms to recruit and train minority students in the biomedical sciences, research, and healthcare fields.