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.
News
CEMHD Creates New Internship Program
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.
CEMHD's Wilma Alvarado-Little Invited to White House Event
for National Minority Health Month


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.
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
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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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Young Moms on a Mission is a project of the Outreach Core that provides health information to single mothers and their partners.
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The Women's Health Project in Hudson is a Research Core project that informs low-income women about reproductive health care and helps them access it.
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Exploring Cyber and Community Approaches for Glycemic Control Among Indo-Guyanese with Diabetes in Schenectady: a Feasibility Study is an outreach and assessment component of a larger School of Public Health study on diabetes in the Indo-Guyanese community. This pilot project was given a CEMHD Research Development Award last spring.
Find Us on Campus
Our new address is: ES 0028, University at Albany, Albany NY 12222.
Our main phone number remains the same: 518-442-4904.

Our Community Partners
- Amsterdam Resource Center for Independent Living
- Black Child Development Institute, Albany Chapter
- Capital Area School Development Association, Albany
- Capital District African-American Coalition on AIDS
- Centro Civico of Amsterdam, Inc.
- The College of Saint Rose
- Community Hospice
- Empire State College
- Fulton Montgomery Community College
- HealthNow New York, Inc.
- Healthy Capital District Initiative
- Hudson Valley Community College
- Macedonia Baptist Church
- Montgomery County Community Services
- New York State Department of Health\
- Occupational and Environmental Health Center of Eastern NY
- Sigma Pi Phi/Beta Psi Boule
- St. Regis Mohawk Health Services
- Trinity Alliance/SNUG
- Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood
- Whitney M. Young Junior Health Services
- WMHT Educational Telecommunications

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