Advances
in Health Disparities
Research in the field of Health Disparities at VCU is
spearheaded by Dr Wally Smith, M.D. and Steven H. Woolf, M.D., M.P.H.
VCU Center
on Health Disparities
The VCU Health System, VCU Department of Epidemiology and
Community Health and the School of World Studies are actively involved
with the Center on Health Disparities. VCU Center on Health Disparities
serves as a coordinating body to enhance a diverse and culturally aware
environment in the VCU Health System with key goals of supporting the
identification and elimination of disparities. Established in December
2005 under the leadership of Dr Wally Smith, M.D. chair of the Division
of Quality Health Care. The Center develops and facilitates research,
education, access to health care services and workforce diversity
initiatives that will reduce health disparities in populations in
Virginia.
Other
Health Disparities Centers (pdf)
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