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Health Equity Research Education Program

Grant Writing Retreat

Wednesday to Friday,
February 26-28, 2025

Birmingham, Alabama


 

Annual Presidents’ Video Conference

March 18, 2025




Program Steering Committee Meeting

April 23, 2025

Hosted Virtually by University of Alabama at Birmingham




Internal Advisory Committee Meeting

February 17, 2025


Cancer Research Symposium

July 22-23, 2025

Hosted by Morehouse School of Medicine at Crowne Plaza Peachtree City, GA



Training Opportunities



2024 PRSTP Application

2024 PRSTP Flyer

Latest in news


 
MSM/TU/O'Neal CCC request for Pilot project application - 2024 

UAB, 2 other schools receive coll ective $18 million grant

Cancer doesn’t care about equality, so this program encourages diverse scholars to care more about cancer

Partnering Institutions

Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM)
Tuskegee University (TU)
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)


Principal Investigators

MSM: 
Brian Rivers, PhD  -Contact-PI
 
James Lillard, PhD

TU:
Timothy Turner, PhD -Contact-PI
Vivian Carter, PhD
Windy Dean-Colomb, MD

UAB:
Upender Manne, PhD -Contact-PI
Isabel Scarinci, PhD


Program Managers

 MSM: Jennifer Creighton
     TU: Chiquita Lee
  UAB: Dennis Otali

 

Upcoming Events


Health Equity Research Education Program

Grant Writing Retreat

Wednesday to Friday,
February 26-28, 2025

Birmingham, Alabama


 

Annual Presidents’ Video Conference

March 18, 2025




Program Steering Committee Meeting

April 23, 2025

Hosted Virtually by University of Alabama at Birmingham




Internal Advisory Committee Meeting

February 17, 2025


Cancer Research Symposium

July 22-23, 2025

Hosted by Morehouse School of Medicine at Crowne Plaza Peachtree City, GA



Training Opportunities



2024 PRSTP Application

2024 PRSTP Flyer

Latest in news


 
MSM/TU/O'Neal CCC request for Pilot project application - 2024 

UAB, 2 other schools receive coll ective $18 million grant

Cancer doesn’t care about equality, so this program encourages diverse scholars to care more about cancer

Partnering Institutions

Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM)
Tuskegee University (TU)
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)


Principal Investigators

MSM: 
Brian Rivers, PhD  -Contact-PI
 
James Lillard, PhD

TU:
Timothy Turner, PhD -Contact-PI
Vivian Carter, PhD
Windy Dean-Colomb, MD

UAB:
Upender Manne, PhD -Contact-PI
Isabel Scarinci, PhD


Program Managers

 MSM: Jennifer Creighton
     TU: Chiquita Lee
  UAB: Dennis Otali

 

Steering Committee

Jeroan J. Allison
, MD, EPI 
(CHAIR)

EXPERTISE: Disparities in Health care Outcomes 

Sandra Million Underwood, RN, PhD
EXPERTISE: Nursing; Cancer Education & Research

Gerald Sonnenfeld
, PhD

EXPERTISE: Basic Science; Microbiology & Immunology
 
John Stone, MD, PhD
EXPERTISE: Cancer Biomarker Development

Jorge A. Marrero, MD, MS
EXPERTISE: 
Advanced Liver Disease and Transplant Hepatology

Laritza M. Rodriguez
MD, PhD
National Cancer Institute

EXPERTISE: Reducing Cancer Health Disparities
 
 
H. Nelson Aguila
D.V.M.
National Cancer Institute

EXPERTISE: Reducing Cancer Health Disparities
 



Advisory Committee

Morehouse School of Medicine

Dr. John H. Stewart, IV, MD, MBA, FACS
EXPERTISE: Surgical oncology  
Sheila McClure, PhD


Tuskegee University

Vijaya K. Rangari, PhD
Chastity Bradford, PhD

University of Alabama at Birmingham
Selvarangan Ponnazhagan, PhD
Erica Stringer-Reasor, MD

 

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Steering Committee

Jeroan J. Allison
, MD, EPI 
(CHAIR)

EXPERTISE: Disparities in Health care Outcomes 

Sandra Million Underwood, RN, PhD
EXPERTISE: Nursing; Cancer Education & Research

Gerald Sonnenfeld
, PhD

EXPERTISE: Basic Science; Microbiology & Immunology
 
John Stone, MD, PhD
EXPERTISE: Cancer Biomarker Development

Jorge A. Marrero, MD, MS
EXPERTISE: 
Advanced Liver Disease and Transplant Hepatology

Laritza M. Rodriguez
MD, PhD
National Cancer Institute

EXPERTISE: Reducing Cancer Health Disparities
 
 
H. Nelson Aguila
D.V.M.
National Cancer Institute

EXPERTISE: Reducing Cancer Health Disparities
 



Advisory Committee

Morehouse School of Medicine

Dr. John H. Stewart, IV, MD, MBA, FACS
EXPERTISE: Surgical oncology  
Sheila McClure, PhD


Tuskegee University

Vijaya K. Rangari, PhD
Chastity Bradford, PhD

University of Alabama at Birmingham
Selvarangan Ponnazhagan, PhD
Erica Stringer-Reasor, MD