Barbershops become urban community health center September 18, 2008 Reuters
TORONTO (Reuters) - African-American communities in the shadows of the University of Pittsburgh's buildings are getting sick and dying sooner than their white counterparts, of preventable diseases -- and Dr. Stephen Thomas wants to change it. An outreach initiative involving local barbershops and beauty salons is a step in that direction.
Mayo Clinic Team Takes on the Health Disparities Challenge September 16, 2008 Mayo Clinic
As part of its mission to train the next generation of physicians and scientists, the Mayo Clinic Center for Translational Science Activities (CTSA) offers the Health Disparities Field Experience, a unique course through Mayo Graduate School. For this year's fieldwork, course scholars and faculty are joining with the Center for Minority Health (CMH) at the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public Health in its innovative program called 'Take a Health Professional to the People Day' on Sept. 18, 2008.
More Than a Haircut - Health Care Providers to Give Screenings at Local Barbershops, Beauty Salons September 12, 2008
Seventh Annual ‘Take a Health Professional to the People Day’ organized by Pitt’s Center for Minority Health. Regular visits to the doctor’s office are an important part of staying healthy, yet many people do not have a primary care physician with whom they can schedule routine checkups.
NCMHD’s Center of Excellence at the University of Pittsburgh: Using Social Norms to Attack Prostate Cancer among African Americans September 12, 2008
Every ethnic group has safe zones; community empowered centers where they can gather, share cultural secrets, connect with their ethnicity’s historical narrative and engage in writing new chapters of that story. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), with support of a grant from the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD), are aggressively taking advantage of one of these centers for African Americans - barbershops - to attack a scourge among black men, prostate cancer.
Pittsburgh GSPH STEER Program Encourages Young Environmental Scientists August 15, 2008
The department of environmental and occupational health (EOH) and Center Minority Health (CMH) at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health have completed the first year of a five-year grant for Short Term Educational Experiences for Research (STEER) in the Environmental Health Sciences.
PBS explores 'Causes' March 21, 2008
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette PBS's "Unnatural Causes" (10 p.m. Thursdays on WQED starting next week and running through April 17) explores the socio-economic and racial inequities in the health of Americans and searches for the causes.
Closing the Gap: An OnQ Special Report February 18, 2008 Medical information is complicated enough, but some patients must also deal with language barriers or disabilities. In this report, OnQ explores how hospitals, providers and other organizations are addressing this health care disparities problem.
Closing the Gap: Health Disparities Overview February 18, 2008 OnQ kicks off our week-long series focusing on disparities in health care and medical access for various groups based on their race, sexual orientation, gender, economic status, among other categories.
Closing the Gap: Health Disparities: Racial and Ethnic February 18, 2008 Through the Center for Minority Health, minister Rev. Vaughn teaches African dance classes for the CMH's Healthy Black Family Project at the Kingsley Center's newly-renovated exercise studios. Class participants talk with OnQ's Chris Moore about getting a handle on health, as well as spiritual issues.
Online archive of print and electronic media related to the health of the four nationally recognized racial groups (Blacks/African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, and Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders).
The Healthy Class of 2010 (HC 2010), a multi-year campaign to promote health and prevent disease among sixth grade students enrolled in Pittsburgh Public Schools.
