Mission:
 

The overall mission of the Center for Research on Health Disparities is to promote research activity and training on topics related to health inequality.

Our aims are to:

• Stimulate research partnerships and collaborations
• Augment doctoral education in the area of health disparities
• Support faculty-initiated research projects on health disparities
• Develop new opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to participate in health disparities research and education 

Center Highlights

2018

• Cecilia Obeng received a book contract from Routledge to disseminate her findings from the Indianapolis study the Center helped to support together with the Indiana University Vice-president for Research (2018)

2017

• Undergraduate and MPH students participated in gender and HIV research project

Laura McCloskey: 

•         presents her South African findings on gender disparities in HIV to the Society for Emerging Adulthood (SSEA) in Washington, D.C.
•         presents her South African findings on age-disparate relationships and HIV to the International AIDS Society in Paris, France.
•         publishes a chapter on the social-ecological origins of child maltreatment
•         wins a research grant from the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity to study racial differences in infant mortality in the State of Indiana.

2016

• The Center supports a year-long doctoral research assistant to study racial disparities in infant mortality.

 Laura McCloskey:

•         wins a Fulbright Faculty year-long Core Award to perform research on gender disparities and HIV in South Africa
•         publishes a major review paper on intimate partner violence in sub-Saharan Africa including a post-doc and graduate student as co-authors.
•         Laura McCloskey publishes a paper showing that intimate partner violence can result in sterilization for women of color in Boston, Massachusetts.

2015

• The Center sponsors a year-long MPH research fellow from Ghana.
• The Center sponsors an undergraduate research team to study racial disparities in staffing of maternity units in hospitals.
• The Center provides support to Cecilia Obeng in her research on promoting breast-feeding among African-American women in Indianapolis. She subsequently wins a grant from the Office of the Vice-President for Research.

2014

• Laura McCloskey delivers the Keynote address to the Pennsylvania State University National Conference on Child Maltreatment, State College, PA
• The Center co-sponsors with Sociology a forum on race and health:

2013

• The Center sponsors a talk and two days of events with:

        Dr. David Williams - Harvard University School of Public Health

• The Center sponsors meetings and a talk by: