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MHRC NewsFeed (UAB news related to MHRC)

  • UAB gets NIH grant to improve COVID-19 testing in underserved populations
  • Live HealthSmart Alabama and Sunrise Rotary Club partner plant hope in Titusville with community tree planting
  • Mayors partner with Live HealthSmart Alabama to bring COVID-19 testing to their communities
  • Live HealthSmart Alabama and Village Market to help Birmingham residents make healthy food choices
  • Black individuals bear heavy burden of COVID-19 mortality, but key geographic disparities in health determinants exist
  • New COVID-19 testing site launches at Cooper Green
  • UAB launches studies on COVID-19 awareness in minority populations
  • Black heart failure patients have worse prognosis even after reaching treatment targets
  • Nearly one-third of non-Hispanic Black young adults in the U.S. have hypertension
  • County authorizes $6.4 million for expanded COVID-19 testing
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Additional News Articles

  • Dr. Fouad: Inaugural holder of Edward E. Partridge, M.D., Endowed Chair for Cancer Disparity Research
  • MHRC Virtual Training Summer Programs
  • Harlem in the 'Ham, 2018 (archived news)
  • Harlem in the Ham 2017 (archived news)
  • Summer in the City Presented by MHRC Young Professionals Board
  • Cocktails & Conversations
  • Singh elected as ASA fellow
  • UAB MHRC Young Professionals had a hot time at Summer in the City
  • Birmingham, meet Dinner Lab
  • Charles Barkley announces Dinner Lab
  • Fox news video of 10th Annual Health Disparities Symposium
  • Cancer Center Launches Global Initiative
  • Scientist Profile: Tiffany Carson
  • The criminal justice system makes black men sick, expert says
  • Health begins outside the doctor's office, says former surgeon general and UAB grad

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Fueled to improve state’s health, Fouad’s team named winner of UAB’s inaugural Grand Challenge


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The Birmingham City Schools (BCS) Department of Athletics, Department of Physical Education and Health and the UAB Minority Health & Health Disparities Research Center have partnered to bridge the local sports programming gap through YES! We can PLAY: A Physical Activity and Nutritional After-School Program for 6thGraders. This project is supported by a two year grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Minority Health and Office on Women’s Health. 


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Mona Fouad is 2018 Distinguished Faculty Lecturer


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UAB led-REACH coalition receives national award for Parks Rx initiative


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Dr Fouad inducted to National Academy of Medicine

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Mid-South TCC Research Published in Ethnicity & Disease


UAB professor Mona Fouad elected to National Academy of Medicine


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UAB MHRC Magazine 2017

Powerhouse medical oncologist joins UAB as director of the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center


NCI Mentor Spotlight of Dr Baskin

 
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