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Racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States suffer a disproportionate burden of health risk behaviors and disease outcomes, along with inadequate access to health services. The UCLA School of Public Health’s Center to Eliminate Health Disparities (CEHD) was established in 2004 in response to the increasing disparities in health status and health care. With a focus on Los Angeles County, CEHD investigates and promotes population-based intervention approaches to health promotion and disease prevention, addressing health disparities across the lifespan and fostering multidisciplinary research to improve the health of underserved communities. A collaborative "center without walls" with members from academia, government, foundations and private/non-profit organizations, CEHD facilitates community and academic partnerships in research, trains new health disparities investigators and assists community partners in implementing effective programs and advocating for effective policies to reduce disparities The
Center to Eliminate Health Disparities is co-directed by
Drs.
Roshan Bastani and
Antronette (Toni) Yancey.
Dr. Alexander Ortega is the Center's Associate Director, and Dr. Joyce Jones
Guinyard, the Administrative Director. CEHD Sample Target Populations
UCLA Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network - Community Research in Cancer (CORICA), a CDC project focused on addressing socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities in cancer through collaborative partnerships with community agencies. Over 30 minority serving community organizations throughout Los Angeles are collaborating with UCLA in the project. Seed grants have been provided to multiple organizations to achieve implementation/dissemination of evidence-based cancer control approaches. Many technical assistance seminars and workshops have been held to assist community partners to select, adapt and implement evidence-based programs. Multiple community-based research projects are underway in the areas of cancer screening, tobacco control and obesity, targeting Latinos, African Americans, Koreans, Filipinos, and Chinese. Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH US), a CDC funded project to establish a Center of Excellence in the Elimination of Disparities addressing population disparities in obesity, tobacco use, and cancer screening. This project supports the work of CEHD with a large network of community-based organizations, as well as that of our primary partner, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. The first phase of the project endeavors to improve health by changing physical activity and nutrition norms and practices within key community settings in which people spend the majority of their waking hours such as workplaces, schools, day care centers, senior centers and churches. This project is quickly establishing CEHD as resource for disparities intervention expertise at the local, state, regional and national levels. |
APHA 135th Annual Meeting and Expo November 3 - 7, 2007, Washington, DC
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