Stuart Gansky, co-director of the new UCSF center to coordinate disparities research, will serve as co-leader of the center’s Research Coordination and Data Management Unit. Photo by Susan MerrellTracking and integrating findings across disciplines is a persistent challenge in health disparities research. UC San Francisco faculty will soon take this challenge on with a new center to coordinate research from 11 newly funded centers across the U.S. on the root causes of, and ways to eliminate, disparities in multiple chronic diseases.
The UCSF center will be funded by a five-year $22.5 million grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) and co-directed by principal investigators Edwin Charlebois, MPH, PhD, Stuart Gansky, DrPH — associate dean for research in the School of Dentistry — and Kim Rhoads, MD, MPH. This is part of an NIMHD initiative to fund a consortium of the UCSF coordinating center along with 11 centers based in other institutions.
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