Outreach and activities

Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference Minority Health Project Annual Minority Health Conference Carolina-Shaw Partnership for the Elimination of Health Disparities ECHO Program Kellogg Foundation Engaged Institutions Initiative   Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health The Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health addresses issues and solutions related to: collecting, analyzing and interpreting data for racial/ethnic populations; disentangling and assessing relationships among race, ethnicity, genetics, and socioeconomic status; community-based research; and partnerships between minority-serving universities and research universities. Videoconference participants ask questions and make comments via toll-free telephone, fax, and e-mail.  [more] [back to top] Minority Health Project The overall purpose of the Minority Health Project (MHP) is to improve the quality of available data on racial and ethnic populations, to expand the capacity of minority-health researchers to conduct statistical research and develop research proposals, and to foster a network of researchers in minority health. Toward these goals, the Minority Health Project, in collaboration with other units in the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, the National Center for Health Statistics and the Association of Schools of Public Health, conducts educational programs including the Annual Summer Public Health Research Institute and Videoconference on Minority Health, provides information on research and sources of data on minority health, and maintains an extensive set of links to organizations at UNC-CH and elsewhere.  [more] [back to top] Annual Minority Health Conference The Annual Minority Health Conference was launched by the Minority Student Caucus in 1977 and has been conducted nearly every year since then. Major objectives are to highlight health issues of concern to people of color and to attract students interested in minority health to the School. Planning and implementation of the Conference are led by the School's Minority Student Caucus, which designates the chair of the Planning Committee each year. The Conference is co-sponsored by various organizations in and outside the University, including the North Carolina Department of Health. The 29th Annual Minority Health Conference is scheduled for February 29, 2008.  For more information visit: www.minority.unc.edu/sph/minconf/.  [more] [back to top]  Carolina-Shaw Partnership for the Elimination of Health Disparities The Carolina-Shaw Partnership for the Elimination of Health Disparities Center has been funded through a $6M grant, over five years, from the National Institutes of Health-National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIH-NCMHD). Project EXPORT, or the Centers of Excellence Partnerships for Community Outreach, Research on Health Disparities and Training Project, comprise 26 Centers of Excellence throughout the nation to include Hawaii and Puerto Rico. The Minority Health and Health Disparities Research and Education Act of 2000, Public Law 106-525, established the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities to conduct and support research, training, dissemination of information, and other programs to support the reduction and elimination of health disparities among ethnic minority populations (NCMHD Website). The newly formed "Partnership" between The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Shaw University seeks to eliminate differences in minority health care and status at several levels. Health Disparities, as defined by the National Institutes of Health, are differences in the incidence, prevalence, mortality, and burden of diseases and other adverse health conditions that exist among specific populations in the United States.  [more] [back to top] ECHO, the UNC Program on Ethnicity, Culture, and Health Outcomes Mission The mission of ECHO, the UNC Program on Ethnicity, Culture, and Health Outcomes, is to eliminate health status and health outcomes disparities through translatable, evidence-based research, multidisciplinary training and education, and culturally sensitive service to North Carolina communities. Objectives Educate faculty, students, health professionals, and communities about the relationship between culture, ethnicity and health Educate faculty, students, health professionals, and communities about the relationship between culture, ethnicity and health Promote a culturally competent health workforce Encourage greater representation of racial diversity in the health workforce Act as a public policy advisor by providing academic guidance on the formation of effective policy.  [more] [back to top] Kellogg Initiative The SPH is one of 12 U.S. schools and graduate programs of public health (chosen among 26 schools that applied) selected in January 2006 to participate in the Engaged Institutions Initiative funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.  The initiative seeks to support and promote the sustained efforts of institutions of higher education working in partnership with communities to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities. As part of this initiative, we have developed a team that includes school faculty and students, university officials, state and local representatives and community members who will be working to develop an action plan for becoming increasingly engaged in community activities and research to eliminate health disparities. Consultants will be sent to assist the team throughout the year-long initiative.  [more] [back to top]

Last updated January 18, 2008