Translating Science into Better Health for All

The UAB Minority Health & Health Disparities Research Center (MHRC) generates and disseminates research knowledge from biomedical, behavioral, and social sciences in order to reduce the health disparities experienced by vulnerable populations and disadvantaged communities locally, regionally, and nationally.

The Center was established in 2002, and since then has maintained its status as a University-Wide Interdisciplinary Research Center, as well as a Center of Excellence (P60) funded by the National Institutes of Health.

The MHRC supports three programs - Research, Training, and Outreach - that align with the University’s broad strategic goals and make it an enabling platform for UAB’s research, teaching, and service missions.

MHRC News

MHRC News Feed

Growing grassroots change with the 'cancer ladies'

With its Community Health Advisor model, the O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB has demonstrated that laypeople can make a real difference in the fight against breast, ovarian and colon cancers. Now the model is being adapted to tackle lung cancer.
Annual health disparities symposium focuses on policy, systems, environmental changes

This year’s symposium will feature Karen Glanz, Ph.D., and Jonathan Engel, Ph.D., as speakers.
Parks Rx receives national award for impact, innovation and replicability

Funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Parks Rx works to connect patients to more than 130 parks in Birmingham and surrounding communities where they can be more active.
Party like Gatsby at Harlem in the ‘Ham

Harlem in the ’Ham will benefit Healthy Happy Kids, the MHRC’s childhood obesity intervention.
NIH awards $45 million to UAB to support All of Us

The five-year funding award will support the Southern All of Us Network, part of the All of Us Research Program, a nationwide research program to transform how research is conducted to advance individualized prevention, treatment and care for people of all backgrounds.