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Causes: Education, Graduate & Professional Schools
Mission: To improve the health and health care of minority and underserved communities by offering excellent education and training programs in the health sciences; delivering high quality health services; and conducting research that fosters the elimination of health disparities.
Programs: Professional education: education of students in the fields of medicine, dentistry, public health, medical science and allied health profession. Degrees conferred include: md, dds, mhs, msph, and phd. (number of graduates from the programs: 219).
health care delivery and management, general/other: general healthcare delivery, primary and specialty care, dental and mental healthcare. (number of patient encounters in the year: 207,224).
medical research, general/other: the organization does research in a number of major areas (cancer, cardiovascular, neuroscience, seatbelt safety, along with research training, and hiv disease, women's health, community engagement) with a primary focus on health disparities research. (number of new grants for the year: 42).
public, society benefit programs, general/other: funds expended for activities that are established primarily to provide non-instructional services beneficial to individuals and groups external to the institution. Cost of providing health services to the community. (number of patient encounters for year: 207,224).