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American Indian Center, UNC is a campus-wide center that advances the University’s overall mission of research, teaching and public service by creating an environment in which quality research, scholarship, and engagement related to American Indians are strengthened, nurtured and coordinated. American Indian Education Resources Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) Center for Health Equity at the University of Maryland School of Public Health (CHE) is a designated TIER 3: Campus-wide Research Initiative Program (CRI) charged with providing support for development of broad, multidisciplinary research initiatives that will position the university to become a national leader in elimination of racial and ethnic health disparities aimed toward achieving the nation's Healthy People 2020 goal of health equity. Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO) is dedicated to the study and interpretation of the Puerto Rican experience in the United States. Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition investigates and disseminates information concerning all aspects of the Atlantic slave system and its destruction. Tangled Roots is a research project about the shared history of African Americans and Irish Americans. Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions (HCHDS) brings together the health research and program development resources of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes (schools of Public Health, Medicine, and Nursing) to demonstrate the efficacy of public health, social science and medical science in mitigating health disparities through efforts in research, training and community outreach. Institute for African American Research, UNC (IAAR) has, as its central mission to advance scholarly identification, investigation, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of broad-based, interdisciplinary research on peoples of recent African descent throughout the transatlantic Diaspora, with a particular emphasis on Black Americans. Loka Institute is a non-profit research and advocacy organization concerned with the social, political, and environmental repercussions of science and technology and expanding opportunities for grassroots, public-interest group, everyday citizen, and worker involvement in vital facets of science and technology decision making. Maya Angelou Research Center on Minority Health new center established by the Wake Forest University School of Medicine to develop methods to close the health gap between minorities and the rest of the United States population. Midwest Latino Health Research, Training, and Policy Center Research Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality (The Network) is a consortium of scholars engaged in interdisciplinary inquiry on disparities between racial and ethnic groups in a comparative, cross-national context. University of Alabama at Birmingham Minority Health and Research Center University of California at San Francisco, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, Training Program for Scientists Conducting Research to Reduce HIV/STI Health Disparities This program is designed to assist investigators conducting HIV prevention research with ethnic minority communities. University of Michigan, Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health University of Pittsburgh, Center for Minority Health University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Center for Research on Minority Health (CRMH) is a comprehensive investigational, educational and outreach component of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. It focuses on cancer and, ultimately, other health issues disproportionately affecting ethnic minorities and the medically underserved. |
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