Research Program

The research program facilitates and assists investigators of varied disciplines to compete effectively for minority-related research programs and will identify opportunities for new investigators of health disparity research. It includes investigators of varied disciplines who have already demonstrated their special interest and success in minority health research.

The Research Program is working on extending disparity research to include other chronic diseases such as cardiovascular, diabetes and obesity. This program is also developing research to include Latino and Asian populations in addition to African American.

If you are working in these disease areas with racial/ethnic minority populations please contact us.

• Research Programs
• Alabama Collaboration for Cardiovascular Equality (ACCE)
• Cancer Awareness Campaigns
• Cervical Cancer Prevention in Latina Immigrants “Friendship Circles for Health”
• Deep South Network for Cancer Control
• REACH US
• Sowing the Seeds of Health: A Program for Latinas
• Charles Barkley Health Disparities Fund

• Leaders:
• Catarina Kiefe, MD , PhD
• Graciela Alarcon, MD, MPH
• Linda Moneyham, PhD, RN

Alabama Collaboration for Cardiovascular Equality (ACCE)

The overall theme of this study is the reduction of disparities in cardiovascular disease (CVD) outcomes through equity in prevention, with the ultimate goal of attaining equality in cardiovascular health. The broad conceptualization includes primary and secondary prevention through changes in provider practices and patient behavior. More>

Community Health Advisors in Action Program (CHAAP)

The Community Health Advisors in Action Program (CHAAP), funded by the Avon Foundation, under Principal Investigator Mona Fouad, MD, MPH, is a pilot study that uses trained community volunteers to assist underserved women who receive an abnormal breast cancer screen in adhering to follow-up recommendations from their physicians. More >

Deep South Network for Cancer Research

The Deep South Network will build upon community infrastructures, state partnerships and coalitions to: (1) provide cancer awareness activities; (2) support minority enrollment in clinical trials; and (3) promote the development of minority junior biomedical researchers. More>

Morehouse School of Medicine/ Tuskegee University/ UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center Partnership

The purpose of this partnership is to develop and sustain a collaboration between the University of Alabama Comprehensive Cancer Center (UAB), Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), and Tuskegee University (TU). The partnership is strengthening the three universities in areas of weakness while continuing to enhance and upgrade the cancer research capabilities of each. More >

REACH 2010

The mission of REACH 2010 to bring together diverse, passionate, committed individuals to empower the community to achieve our vision, which is to eliminate the breast and cervical cancer morbidity and mortality gap between White and African American women in Alabama. More >

REACH US