The Scholars at the Center for Research on Minority Health/Health Disparities Research, Education and Training Consortium (HDC) will focus on using a biopsychosocial approach health disparities.

The CRMH/HDC brings together the strengthens of member institutions (the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Rice University, Prairie View University and its College of Nursing, Texas A & M University Health Science Center, Texas Southern University, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas Woman's University, Baylor College of Medicine, Lee Junior College, San Jacinto Junior College and the Veteran Administration Hospital at Houston) to focus on developing solutions to health disparities.

The major themes of research projects at the Center for Research on Minority Health are:  

• eliminating health disparities through a community/participatory based research approach

• value interdisciplinary approaches to developing solutions to health disparities, wherein natural scientists, social scientists, and community advocates work collaboratively to develop new insights; and

• promote inter-institutional efforts to leverage the intellectual strength, diversity of ideas, and energy from a multitude of faculty

Site Director: Lovell A. Jones, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Research on Minority Health,
Professor of Gynecologic Oncology
Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Co-Director: Alvin Tarlov, M.D.
Director, Texas Program for Society & Health
Rice University

The other core faculty of the Health Disparities Research, Education, Training Consortium include:

Leslie Schover, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Jeffery Guidry, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Health & Kinesiology, Texas A & M University
Andrew Lustig, Ph.D., Director, Program on Biotechnology, Religion & Ethics
Rice University 
Nestor Rodriguez, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology, and Co-Director,
Center for Immigration Research, University of Houston

For more information about the Center for Research on Minority Health/Health Disparities Research, Education and Training Consortium (HDC) Consortium visit: here.