Community Partners
The Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities (CEMHD) collaborates with various community-based organizations to reduce minority health disparities in upstate New York.
To become a community partner, email [email protected].
Our current partners include:
partners
- AIDS Council of Northeastern New York
- Albany City School District
- Albany City Youth & Workforce Services
- Albany County Department of Health
- 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
- Capital District YMCA
- Catholic Charities of Columbia and Greene Counties
- Catholic Charities of Fulton and Montgomery Counties
- Centro Civico of Amsterdam, Inc.
- Columbia County Community Healthcare Consortium
- Columbia County Department of Health
- Columbia Memorial Hospital - Medical Imaging Department
- Columbia Opportunities, Inc.
- Community Hospice
- Crosswinds at Hudson
- Empire State College
- Fulton Montgomery Community College
- HealthNow New York, Inc.
- Healthy Capital District Initiative
- Hudson River Healthcare Center
- Hudson Valley Community College
- Macedonia Baptist Church
- Mental Health Association of Columbia-Greene Counties
- Montgomery County Community Services
- New York State Department of Health
- New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services
- New York State Office of Mental Health
- Occupational and Environmental Health Center of Eastern NY
- Operation Unite Education and Cultural Arts Center
- Parsons Child and Family Services
- Planned Parenthood Mohawk-Hudson
- Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood
- Sigma Pi Phi/Beta Psi Boule
- St. Mary’s Hospital
- St. Peters Health Care
- St. Regis Mohawk Health Services
- Team Esteem on The Hill
- Trinity Alliance
- Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood
- Whitney M. Young Junior Health Services
- WMHT Educational Telecommunications
Resources for Community Organizations
The following institutions are leaders in minority health:
- Office on Women’s Health: This U.S. Department of Health and Human Services office focuses on improving the health and well-being of women and girls in the United States.
- National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD): This National Institutes of Health (NIH) institute invests in research and fosters collaborations and partnerships to promote and support evidence-based science to inform practice and policy.
- Kaiser Family Foundation: This nonpartisan organization is an independent source for research, polling and journalism on health policy, including racial equity and health policy.
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ): This U.S. Department of Health and Human Services agency produces evidence to make healthcare higher quality, safer, more accessible, more equitable and more affordable.
resources