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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



2025-PRSTP - Flyer with QR Code

2025-PRSTP – Program Flyer

Latest in news


 
2025 MSM-TU-UAB Full-Pilot Application RFA-Final 

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



2025-PRSTP - Flyer with QR Code

2025-PRSTP – Program Flyer

Latest in news


 
2025 MSM-TU-UAB Full-Pilot Application RFA-Final 

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

Sandra L. San Miguel-MajorsDrPH, MS
Health Science Administrator, Innovative Programs Branch
Center to Reduce 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
Sheila McClure, PhD


Tuskegee University

Vijaya K. Rangari, PhD
Chastity Bradford, PhD

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

 

Contact Us

Suzanne Byan-Parker

Program Manager
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Zeigler 406 | 703 19th Street South | Birmingham, AL 35294-0007 
sbyanparker@uabmc.edu
(205) 934-6071
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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

Sandra L. San Miguel-MajorsDrPH, MS
Health Science Administrator, Innovative Programs Branch
Center to Reduce 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
Sheila McClure, PhD


Tuskegee University

Vijaya K. Rangari, PhD
Chastity Bradford, PhD

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