Minority Health Research Organizations
- National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD): NCMHD leads, coordinates, supports and assesses the NIH research effort to reduce and ultimately eliminate health disparities as they affect racial and ethnic communities and medically underserved individuals.
- Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities: NIH's National Cancer Institute (NCI) opened the Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities in 2001 to address the unequal burden of cancer. The center's mission is to advance understanding of the causes of health disparities, and develop and integrate effective interventions to reduce or eliminate those disparities.
- Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities: In 2003, Secretary Thompson announced the creation of eight Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities, designed to support research to understand and reduce differences in health outcomes, access and care. The eight centers will form a network of research teams to explore the complexity of health disparities, following a community-based research approach. Studies will focus on obesity, cardiovascular disease, breast cancer, prostate cancer, cervical cancer, mental health, gene-environment interactions, psychosocial stress, and other factors. Investigators will follow a community-based research approach with populations including low-income Whites, African Americans, Hispanics, and the elderly.