This is the second academic year of funding for this seminar. Our previous year goals will carry forward this year with some additions and improvements. We still aim to become acquainted with researchers and students who are involved in or interested in health disparities; to understand how to build and refine the Program in Health… Read more »
New Monthly Seminar in Health Disparities and COVID-19
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Health Disparities: Healthcare Delivery in the Age of COVID-19 This interdisciplinary Seminar will hold intensive and collaborative sessions focused on health outcome and health delivery problems resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Our main research topic is health disparities in healthcare delivery and how the COVID-19 pandemic shapes systems and impacts resources, including… Read more »
Dr. Crystal Cené named UNC Health System Executive Director for Health Equity
Join us in congratulating Dr. Crystal Wiley Cené, MD, MPH, FAHA, with her promotion by UNC Health as the organization’s first System Executive Director for Health Equity. In this new role, Dr. Cené will lead a multidisciplinary and collaborative effort to plan, implement, and evaluate science-based strategies and interventions to help address the structures, policies,… Read more »
Crystal Wiley Cené awarded a 5-year R01 award to implement Patient Priorities Care in North Carolina
Crystal Wiley Cené, MD, MPH, FAHA is the Director of the Program on Health Disparities at the Sheps Center. She is a health services researcher and implementation scientist with research expertise and passion for patient- and family-centered care. Her R01 proposal, entitled, “Implementation and Evaluation of Patient Priorities Care-North Carolina for Older… Read more »
UNC-Chapel Hill Selected as Center for New Leadership Initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
UNC-Chapel Hill to lead an unprecedented national push to equip clinicians with leadership, team-building and cultural competence skills to improve the health status of Americans. (Chapel Hill, N.C. – Nov. 2, 2015) — The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been selected by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to serve as the… Read more »
UNC Center for Health Equity Research Postdoctoral Fellow Announcement – January 7, 2014 deadline
The UNC Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) brings together scholars, trainees, and community members from diverse disciplines to form multidisciplinary teams with a shared commitment to health equity, innovation and translational research. The CHER’s Postdoctoral Program provides early stage investigators with unique opportunities to perform innovative research and strengthen skills in: understanding and addressing… Read more »
UNC Center for Health Equity Research’s Postdoctoral Program – deadline July 15
The UNC Center for Health Equity Research’s Postdoctoral Program provides early stage investigators with unique opportunities to perform innovative research and strengthen capacities in eliminating health disparities, understanding and addressing social determinants of health and contributing to policy change. Deadline is July 15, 2013 Post Doctoral Announcement For more information
UNC-CH has a new Graduate Certificate in Participatory Research
Graduate Certificate in Participatory Research
New Center for Health Equity Research at UNC – CHER
Center for Health Equity Research members generate new knowledge and contribute to the science of health equity research.
Project Grace Consortium receives Office of the Provost Engaged Scholarship Award
The Office of the Provost Engaged Scholarship Award was given to The Project GRACE Consortium, for community partnership for its work over the last eight years to eliminate health disparities in African American communities through interventions to reduce the risk of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. “Public service within our state and externally are… Read more »
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