Core Focus Areas

Administrative Core: Provides the guiding vision for the center, sets strategic goals, and develops partnerships with campus centers and state agencies.

Research Core: Conducts research on the etiology of health disparities, and develops clinical and community-based interventions to eliminate health disparities. 

Education & Training Core: Develops programs to increase knowledge of health disparities, and increase the number of ethnic minorities in STEM majors and biomedical careers. 

Community Engagement, Outreach, & Programs Core: Develops partnerships and collaborations with community organizations and minority-serving colleges.   

Shared Resource Core: Provides survey, statistical, laboratory, and other resources to center projects. 

Fine Arts & Communication Core: Uses music, theatre, dance, and other arts to develop programs to improve health in communities.