Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities

CEMHD is a collaborative effort focusing on minority health disparities in the smaller cities and towns of New York. We work toward eliminating health disparities by developing capacity in faculty at the University at Albany and partnering with community groups to identify their health concerns and the sources of disparities, and then plan, implement and test strategies to alleviate them.          

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CEMHD Creates New Internship Program

In response to student demand, the Center has created an internship program in partnership with SNUG (“guns” spelled backwards),  the Trinity Alliances’ anti gun violence program, and the Department of Communication. 

In the fall semester, student interns will be helping implement a public relations campaign currently being developed by professors Annis Golden, Matthew Matsaganis, Mihye Seo, and Muriel Scott, an advanced graduate student. This summer, they will be conducting focus groups to determine the best strategies to use in the campaign. 

Students from the group Doctors for Hope will be the first interns in the program, but we welcome all undergraduate and graduate students to participate. Anyone who is interested in being a CEMHD/SNUG intern should email a letter of interest and a resume to Dr. Elizabeth Campisi at: ecampisi@albany.edu.

 

From left to right: Annis Golden, Jacqueline Fason, Arylee Ojumu, 
Tiffany Garriga, Barbara Hall, and Anita Pomerantz.

UAlbany Honors The Women's Health Project as a
Community Partner Making a Difference

On May 13, President Jones honored the Women's Health Project with one of the 2013 President's Awards for Exemplary Community Engagement. The award is given to local partnerships between UAlbany and community groups that work to meet important public needs in the Capital Region and beyond. A total of nine partnerships were honored this year. The awards are part of President Robert Jones’ efforts to advance UAlbany’s progress as a community-engaged research university.

We extend our congratulations to all of the researchers involved with the project: Drs. Annis Golden, Matthew Matsaganis, and Anita Pomerantz, of the Communication Department. Dr. Jennifer Manganello of the School of Public Health also provided support.  We also congratulate the local peer educators and Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood, the major community partner in this endeavor.

Led by Dr. Annis Golden, the Women's Health Project is a community-based participatory research project working to meet the reproductive healthcare needs of low-income, under-served women in Hudson by devising and implementing strategies to overcome barriers to care. This has included strengthening their connections to community-based health and human service organizations. 

CEMHD's Wilma Alvarado-Little Invited to White House Event
for National Minority Health Month


Wilma Alvarado-Little, Director of the Community Outreach/Engagement Core, was invited to join senior leaders from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other experts at the White House on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 in honor of National Minority Health Month. 

This year, the month has been themed Advance Health Equity Now: Uniting Our Communities to Bring Health Care Coverage to All. It is a call to action to unite toward the common goal of improving the health of our communities and increasing access to quality, affordable health care. At the event, HHS leaders also unveiled the new, updated National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in Health and Health Care, which Wilma Alvarado-Little was involved in updating.

CEMHD Researchers Partner with the
Department of Health on Technology Use Survey 

The the NYS Department of Health has a number of initiatives underway that are designed to reduce minority health disparities.  One of them involves a partnership between two Center-affiliated researchers from the School of Public Health: David Strogatz, Director of the Research Core, and CEMHD Associate and Research Development Award recipient, Jennifer Manganello. The two professors are working with the Department of Health on the New York State Media and Technology Use Survey, which is focused on rural and Hispanic/Latino residents throughout the state. The goal of the survey is to understand the patterns of technology use to receive health information, and to gauge attitudes about the credibility of those sources of health information. The data will be used to improve key health messaging in program planning and health information dissemination, including website design.  

Dissertation and Article Writing Assistance Available

CEMHD sponsors a faculty-facilitated interactive writing group that provides support to individuals with health disparities writing projects that require completion. The only requirements for participation are a need and the commitment to complete a writing project, and a willingness to engage in critical intellectual discourse with group members.    

 For additional information please contact:  
 Dr. Robert Miller Jr. Associate Professor,
School of Social Welfare
rmiller@albany.edu


CEMHD has been cited in the following effort: 

UAlbany’s Community Service Efforts Improve Region’s Quality of Life While Earning Place on U.S. Community Service Honor Roll



The University at Albany has been named to the President's Honor Roll for Community Service. The University chose CEMHD as one of three projects to highlight in its application, and, in turn the Center then highlighted three of own projects.  CEMHD extends its congratulations to the faculty, staff and students involved in the three projects below: 

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