Project Period : September 30, 2002 - September 29, 2006
Funded By : Agency for Health Care Research and Quality
Grant No. : 5 R24 HS13353-02
Award : $1,201,567
PI & Director :
Daniel
L. Howard, Ph.D.
Associate Director :
Sharon Wellman, M.S.
The goal of the
Shaw University M-RISP Minority
Elderly Research (SUMMER) Center is to establish infrastructure support
to Shaw University junior-level faculty to conduct health services research on
racial disparities among various minority populations by providing training,
resources, and mentorship opportunities through collaborative linkages with
senior researchers at Shaw and other universities. The Center combines on-going
quality health services research, faculty development, and student training in
an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to meet the broad objectives of AHRQ
M-RISP which are, in part, to help minority institutions and their faculty
conduct health services research with respect to the elimination of racial
health disparities and to support improvements in health outcomes, strengthen
quality measurement and improvement, identify strategies to improve access,
foster appropriate use overall, and reduce unnecessary expenditures.
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