Displaying items by tag: minority health and health equity research center
The Deep South Resource Center for Minority Aging Research focuses on minority aging research with a disparities focus, particularly related to health problems more prevalent among older African Americans living in both rural and urban areas.
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The UAB Minority Health and Health Disparity Research Center is a key partner in providing free weekly health screenings and other wellness education programs, as well as evaluating the success of this Campus of Hope.
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“At the core, I don’t want anyone else to lose their father so early in their lifetime. That drove me at the beginning to do the work I do today.”
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Sowing the Seeds of Health has served 4,000 Latina women in six counties in Alabama and continues to demonstrate the need to navigate cultural differences to raise awareness about cancer detection.
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Pigford was known for his participation and leadership in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Building Healthy Communities Coalition in Kingston.
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Fouad’s winning proposal is a comprehensive approach to fixing Alabama’s complex health problems and includes 90 partners on her team from government, business, education and more.
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Children in the afterschool program at the Campus of Hope at Marks Village are learning to be “Healthy Happy Kids” through a six-week childhood obesity prevention program.
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The clinic is an initiative of Building Healthy Communities, a project of the UAB Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center
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Approximately 2,100 students are scheduled to graduate from UAB this spring.
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This year’s symposium will feature Karen Glanz, Ph.D., and Jonathan Engel, Ph.D., as speakers.
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Baskin will become society president in April 2020.
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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.
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Harlem in the ’Ham will benefit Healthy Happy Kids, the MHRC’s childhood obesity intervention.
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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.
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The Health Disparities Research Symposium highlights the work of undergraduate, graduate, faculty and community investigators.
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Community members and academic investigators have teamed up to publish research in Ethnicity & Disease.
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Sarah-Jeanne Salvy, Ph.D., says the findings of her research emphasize the importance of considering social factors when examining the impact of neighborhood on physical activity.
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The center is funded by a $7 million grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities.
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CHAAMPS exists to develop, implement and evaluate interventions to improve African-American men’s health through research, outreach and training.
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Fouad has worked to establish the validity of health disparities as a national scientific research priority.
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