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For the page design, I suggest using the same background color and some of the other
design features as one of our pages, e.g., institute/index.htm
but I guess we wouldn’t use the our photos (we could use small versions of two of theirs
if you would like to keep the basic page template the same).
Page title and heading: About the Morgan-Hopkins Center for Health Disparities
Solutions
The Morgan-Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions (CHDS) is dedicated to the
elimination of disparities in health and health care among racial and ethnic populations,
socioeconomic groups and geopolitical categories such as urban, rural, and suburban
populations. CHDS conducts multi-disciplinary basic and translational research with the
goals of advancing knowledge on the causes of health disparities and developing
interventions to eliminate disparities.
The Center is a collaboration between Morgan State University (link to
http://www.morgan.edu/) and Johns Hopkins University (link to http://www.jhsph.edu/),
with Dorothy Browne, DrPH and Thomas Laveist, PhD, serving as directors,
respectively. CHDS brings together the health-research and program development
resources of the two Baltimore-based universities to demonstrate the efficacy of public
health, social science and medical science in affecting disparities. The Center does this
through inter-institutional efforts in research, training and community outreach. The
center has a national focus, but much of its work is in the local Baltimore community.
The Morgan-Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions studies leverages the
resources of three Morgan State University organizational entities and five Johns
Hopkins University entities. The MSU organizational entities are the Drug Abuse
Research Program, Prevention Sciences Research Center, Public Health Program,
Programs in Social Work and Psychology, and School of Computer, Mathematical and
Natural Sciences. The JHU organizational entities are the Sidney Kimmel
Comprehensive Cancer Center, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical
Research, Health Services Research and Development Center, Biostatistics Center and
Urban Institute
Established in October 2002, through a grant provided by the National Center for
Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD – link to http://ncmhd.nih.gov/), under
the Centers of Excellence in Partnerships for Community Outreach, Research on Health
Disparities and Training Program (Project EXPORT), CHDS is designated as a National
Comprehensive Center of Excellence in Health Disparities of the National Institutes of
Health.
Since 2003, the Center has conducted an in-person Institute in conjunction with the
Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health. The
Center co-presents the Videoconference with the Minority Health Project (UNC at
Chapel Hill School of Public Health), which Dr. Browne helped to create in 1994.
(. . . more)
( links to http://www.jhsph.edu/healthdisparities/ )
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