Fostering Health Disparities Research
The Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities (CEMHD) engages various methods to foster health disparities research, including:
- Hosting workshops on health disparities research that encourage interaction between interested UAlbany faculty members
- Sponsoring lectures by experts in health disparities
- Offering faculty associate status to faculty whose interests are consistent with CEMHD’s mission, including providing letters of support for research projects, facilitating connections with potential community partners, and helping to disseminate their research
- Elevating the profile of health disparities research in the campus community and surrounding community through the annual President’s Forum on Health Disparities
- Supporting Center-scale research proposals for external funding
- Developing new health disparities scholars through the Presidential Doctoral Fellowship for Research Training in Health Disparities
Workshops
Workshop topics have included:
- How to include epigenetics in research
- Working with community partners
- Community-based participatory research
Lectures
Lecturers have included:
- Jennifer Roberts, speaking on environmental racism in the U.S.
- Dána-Ain Davis, speaking on the traumatic repercussions of obstetric racism for Black women
Research Proposals
Center-scale research proposals have included:
- Center for Advancing Health Equity and Policy in a Changing Climate - P20 (2023)
- Downstate Center for the Elimination of Cancer Disparities (U54) (2022)
- SUNY Downstate Training and Research in Underrepresented Minority Population Health (RCMI) (2020)
- Center for Environmental Health Equity, Research, Training and Engagement (P50) (2019)
- Center of Excellence on Minority Health Disparities (U54) (2017)