The Message from the Former Center Director Paul D. Juarez, PhD Former Founding Center Director NIMHD/Health Disparities Research Center of Excellence at Meharry Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine Director, The Research Center for Health Disparities, Equity, and the Exposome College of Medicine UT Health Science Center Memphis, Tennessee
This research training institute is named in honor of Dr. M. Alfred Haynes, past President/Dean of Charles R. Drew Post Graduate Medical School in Los Angeles, CA. Throughout his career, Dr. Haynes has led national efforts to bring attention to health disparities and for the need to increase the numbers of underrepresented minority professionals in the health sciences and health professions. He has been ahead of his time in acknowledging the importance of community medicine, providing culturally competent care, and engaging community in health services research. Dr. Haynes has been a pioneer, a visionary, and on a very personal level, a mentor and inspiration to me and countless others for over thirty years. While he is unable to be with us here today to kick off the third, annual Institute in his honor, he is with us in spirit. This is an exciting institute, established under the leadership of Dr. Patricia Matthews Juarez, past Director of the Research Training Core, to promote trans-disciplinary research and training in a new research paradigm, that we call the public health exposome, among early and mid-level investigators who share our passion and recognition for the need to address health equity as a cornerstone of a national strategy for eliminating health disparities. On behalf of the National Health Disparities Research Center of Excellence at Meharry Medical College, The Research Center for Health Disparities, Equity and the Exposome, and with the support of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), I welcome you to the 2013 M. Alfred Haynes Research Training Institute for Social Equity. We thank you for accepting this challenge and engaging with us in our quest to eliminate health disparities through the promotion of health and social equity.
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MAHRTISE 2013