Research Center of Excellence on Minority Health Disparities

Maryland Center for Health Equity Partners with University of Wisconsin to Conduct Leadership Institute

The Maryland Center for Health Equity is partnering with the University of Wisconsin’s Institute for Clinical and Translational Research to conduct the second annual Health Equity Leadership Institute (HELI).

In its second year, the institute represents replication of the highly successful Summer Research Career Development Institute on Minority Health Disparities developed by Dr. Sandra C. Quinn and Dr. Stephen B. Thomas in 2005 at the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public Health. “The over arching aim of the program was to build the capacity of academic health science centers to train the next generation of scholars in minority health and health disparity research designed to achieve health equity,” said Dr. Stephen B. Thomas, director of Maryland’s Center for Health Equity.

Now, working in partnership with the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research’s Collaborative Center for Health Equity at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the program has taken root and is expanding the HELI to an intensive weeklong “research boot camp” scheduled for June 20-24. The institute focuses on increasing the number of investigators, particularly minority investigators, engaged in health disparities/health equity research that are successful in tenure track academic appointments in schools of public health, medicine and other health science disciplines. For the second year, the entire Center for Health Equity team, including Drs. Thomas, Quinn, Butler, Fryer and Garza, will present during the institute and work directly with the HELI scholars.

The Health Equity Leadership Institute is made possible through NIH Centers of Excellence grant awards from the National Institute on Minority Health and Heath Disparities to the University of Maryland and University of Wisconsin.
For more information, visit http://uwictr.wisc.edu.

HELI Welcome poster