The mission of the Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities (CEMHD) is to contribute to the elimination of minority health disparities by
The Center focuses on minority health disparities in the smaller cities and towns of New York. It will work toward eliminating minority health disparities by developing capacity in the university’s faculty and in partnering community groups to identify community health concerns and sources of disparities, plan strategies to alleviate them, and test their effectiveness.
Effective strategies can be adopted by health care providers and health prevention agencies and organizations. (The Center does not implement programs or provide health services.) It serves to bring the strengths of the university community and minority communities to bear on developing solutions to the problem of minority health disparities, focusing on the problem as it exists in smaller cities and towns of New York.
The Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities (CEMHD) is a partnership between the State of New York, community groups, hospitals, county health departments, and University at Albany.
The Center is supported by a grant from the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities through their EXPORT program. EXPORT stands for Excellence in Partnerships for Community Outreach, Research and Training. The goal of the NIH grant to the CEMHD is to identify community needs, focusing on barriers to utilization of prevention programs and health care, and to begin specific projects with community groups to test programs that may reduce barriers and improve utilization, and ultimately health.
The Center is composed of five cores or components: Mentoring and Training, Community Outreach and Information Dissemination, Education, Research, and Administration. Each core has specific aims to contribute the overall mission of the Center.
