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January 12, 2012

New center focuses on health equity

The Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH) has established a new center that aims to understand and reduce health disparities in underserved populations, particularly those in western Pennsylvania. Through community engagement, research, education and training, the Center for Health Equity will focus on reducing the major causes of excess mortality among disadvantaged individuals in the region.

The new center will build upon the efforts of the former Center for Minority Health, which was established in 1994, and will be led by Michael J. Zigmond, faculty member in neurology, psychiatry and behavioral and community health sciences, and Angela Ford, who was serving as executive director of the Center for Minority Health.

The priorities of the Center for Health Equity include increasing the cadre of individuals working to eliminate health disparities. It will offer a range of educational programs to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and individuals working within the community, as well as promote diversity among GSPH’s students, staff and faculty. The center also will help both Pitt faculty and community organizations obtain research funding and assist research design, evaluation and publication of research outcomes.

Filed under: Feature,Volume 44 Issue 9

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