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In light of our commitment to eliminating health disparities, the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH), under the auspices of the ASPH Diversity Committee and Chairperson Dean Marla Gold (Drexel University), began an initiative to provide information about the health disparities research activities of our member schools and diversity-related issues in public health.
This initiative is a venue for sharing our schools’ current health disparities research activities, as well as providing important information that will help diversify our schools’ faculty and student body, thereby advancing our schools’ capacity to eliminate U.S. health disparities.
The goals of this resource center are to:
- Disseminate
best practices for minority faculty and student
recruitment and retention;
- Facilitate
increased research about health disparities;
- Encourage
development and implementation of multicultural perspectives
across curricula;
- Increase
the cultural competence of faculty, staff, and students; and
- Create
and maintain partnerships with minority health professions
schools and other
minority-based institutions.
The Diversity Resource Center serves as a resource hub for students, faculty, and other interested parties seeking to augment their knowledge base in racial and ethnic health disparities as they pertain to Schools of Public Health.
This information is accessible in the following categories:
In 2005, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation hosted a conference to address the role that Schools of Public Health play in eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities. After attending this conference, delegates from ASPH were inspired and ready to launch ASPH initiatives to tackle health disparities, which is manifested in the report below and in this online Diversity Resource Center. The Final Proceedings Report from the W.K. Kellogg conference can be viewed here: Racial & Ethnic Health Disparities: Schools of Public Health Respond as Engaged Institutions - [pdf].
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