About Us

The University of Maryland Center for Health Equity (CHE) began its work in earnest this fall with the arrival of Dr. Stephen Thomas, Professor of Health Services Administration, as center director. He is joined by Dr. Sandra Quinn, Associate Dean for Public Health Initiatives and Professor of Family Science as senior associate director along with Dr. James Butler, Dr. Craig Fryer, and Dr. Mary Garza, all Assistant Professors in Behavioral and Community Health and associate directors in the new center. Together they represent the largest cluster hire in the history of the University of Maryland, College Park. The CHE is a designated TIER 3: Campus-­wide Research Initiative Program (CRI) charged with providing support for development of broad, multidisciplinary research initiatives that will position the university to become a national leader in elimination of racial and ethnic health disparities aimed toward achieving the nation's Healthy People 2020 goal of health equity. The CHE is administratively headquartered in the SPH’s Office of the Dean.more »

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Stephen B. Thomas, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized, African American leader in minority health research and community engagement and has been a lead investigator of multiple studies investigating racial differences in health outcomes. In 1997, Dr. Thomas received an NIH-NIAID Mentored Career Development award (K01) in bioethics and completed certificates in research ethics at Georgetown University and the University of Washington.  His K01 research explored the legacy of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and led to the development of a “distrust, race and research” survey instrument, which informs researchers about the willingness of individuals to participate in clinical trials.  more »

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