卫生公平中心在休斯顿公共卫生学院启动

为了加速德克萨斯州的健康平等，Uthealth休斯顿公共卫生学院已经建立了卫生公平中心。

The卫生公平中心将创建， 进步,和sustainresearch opportunities spanning the continuum of care to improve understanding of disease and health disparities,包括结构behavioral, environmental, social, economic, and health literacy factors related to the prevention and control of chronic disease across the lifespan. The Center will resource research projects tailored to address population health and health equity priorities并充当值得信赖社区资源， 伙伴，和支持活动即兴e得克萨斯州的健康成果。

ShreelaV.夏尔马,博士学位,vicechair of the epidemiology, human genetics, andenvironmentalsciences部门at the School of Public Health,将担任卫生公平中心.该中心的任务是在Uthealth建立核心人口健康和健康公平研究基础设施beplay苹果手机能用吗休斯顿, including systems of data capture, curation, management,和互操作性构建数据驱动的见解以解决不平等和upstream factors,包括社会的和structural健康的决定因素。The Center will strengthen collaborations to support health equity research, policy,和practice.而且，the Center will lead and support下一代公共卫生研究人员和从业人员的教育是健康公平与健康差异研究的最前沿。beplay苹果手机能用吗

“W帽子特别令人兴奋是我们have a lot of great work happeningatour school and在我们的地区。但，we also continue to be与健康状况不佳的斗争的高需求。使用以社区为中心的设计，卫生公平中心将advance通过提供基础基础设施来卫生公平和脚手架以支持新的想法和现有的努力,创造opportunities for collaboration,促进health equity-based教育,和public health practice,和确保可持续性和长期影响the在大休斯顿地区和整个德克萨斯州的工作，”夏尔马说。

As CenterD领导者夏尔马将要领导研究计划并制定beplay苹果手机能用吗和维护collaborative relationships在人口健康的所有领域。The establishment of theCenter用于健康平等将要help accelerate the rate of discoveries and enable researchers to ask and answer questions beyond the reach of any single investigator or institution.

“健康差异无法解决或解决by any one agency, organization, oractor和requires协作与伙伴关系。卫生公平中心将培养和sustain such collaborationstoensure公平outcomes为我们的社区,”中心主任夏尔马说。

For more information please contact:

Naomi Tice
计划经理
休斯顿乌西卫生
公共卫生学院
卫生公平中心
Email：naomi.tice@uth.tmc.edu