The goal of the Shaw University Project Export R24 (SUPER) Program 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 at other universities. This infrastructure support will allow a strengthened commitment to research aimed at reducing and eliminating health disparities, improvements in the quality and multidisciplinary nature of research through shared access to specialized technical resources and expertise, as well as the provision of outreach and education.

The Program combines on-going quality health services research, faculty development, and student training in an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to meet the broad objectives of NIH NCMHD R24 program 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. The Program directly supports Healthy People 2010, in part, through its focus on the elimination of racial disparities in health.

Specifically, the two components of the Program are:

1. to establish institutional infrastructure support for research development to strengthen and enhance the capability of Shaw faculty members to undertake racial health disparities research; and
2. to support individual investigator pilot research projects focused on the elimination of health disparities which will, in turn, lead to increases in health knowledge and will form the basis for Shaw faculty to become more competitive in extra-mural research.

The pilot research projects for the program are

1. Hypertension and Diabetes,
2. International Medical School Graduates and
3. Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions.

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