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The Minority Health Project (MHP) was created in 1994 by Drs. Trude Bennett, Dorothy Browne, and Lloyd Edwards (principal investigator) for the purpose of improving the quality of available data on racial and ethnic populations, expanding the capacity of minority-health researchers to conduct statistical research and develop research proposals, and fostering a network of researchers in minority health. Funding was provided by the Minority Statistics Grants program (directed by Audrey Burwell, MS) of the CDC National Center for Health Statistics [link], through the CDC cooperative agreement with the Association of Schools of Public Health [ASPH].

During the first five years, the Minority Health Project developed a website [www.minority.unc.edu], searchable, web-based catalogs of research literature [archival page] and datasets [archival page], and a course on minority health research. The course evolved into the Annual Summer Public Health Research Institute, and then Videoconference, on Minority Health (see “About the Annual Summer Public Health Research Institute and Videoconference on Minority Health” for a detailed history of the Institute [go there]).

Dr. Victor Schoenbach [homepage] became principal investigator in 1998, turned the leadership over to Dr. Dorothy Browne in 2001, and resumed it in 2002 when Dr. Browne moved to Morgan State University. With support from the Office of Health Disparities (directed by Bill Jenkins, PhD, MPH) of the CDC National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention [link], the Minority Health Project extended its services to other minority-serving activities at UNC-CH and elsewhere, through listing announcements, events, reports, and webpage links, on the Project’s website, including event announcements in publicity emails, broadcasting the William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture from the UNC-CH SPH Annual Minority Health Conference [link] led by the School’s Minority Student Caucus [link], collaborating with the UNC Center for Health Statistics Research [link], arranging for distribution of videotapes by the Public Health Foundation [link], co-sponsoring the Annual UNC-CH Black Alumni Reunion [link], and producing Videoconference sessions from the U.S. Congress House Recording Studio (2004), the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History [link] (2005 and 2006), and Morgan State University (2006).

  Institutes and Videoconferences   (About the Annual Summer Public Health Research Institute and Videoconference on Minority Health)

 Publications and Presentations by the Minority Health Project

1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994

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Last Updated: 05/19/05 by Cal, 6/21/2006, 7/11/2006 by Vic