Scholars at the Center for Minority Health, EXPORT Health Program are trained in behavioral and community health science, community based participatory research, cultural competence, health communication and health disparity intervention research.

The major themes of research projects at the Center for Minority Health include, but are not limited to:

• Translating evidence-based intervention research into health promotion and disease prevention interventions in minority communities

• Study use of genetic family health histories as an intervention strategy for lifestyle behavior change in minority communities

• Study factors associated with willingness of minority populations to participate in clinical research

• Investigate the role of neighborhoods as a social and environmental context for generating risk factors associated with health disparities

Site Director: Stephen B. Thomas, Ph.D.
Philip Hallen Professor of Community Health and Social Justice and Director, Center for Minority Health.

Other core faculty associated with research in the EXPORT Health program include:

Sandra C. Quinn, Ph.D., Associate Professor Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences and Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Education
Richard Schulz, Ph.D.
Director, University Center for Social and Urban Research
Professor of Psychiatry, Epidemiology, Sociology, and Psychology
Charles F. Reynolds, III, MD
Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Neuroscience
Senior Associate Dean, School of Medicine
Jeannette Elizabeth South-Paul, M.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Family Medicine

Angela F. Ford, MSW
Associate Director Center for Minority Health
Anthony J. Silvestre, Ph.D., L.S.W.
Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology
Harold A. Pincus, M.D.
Professor and Executive Vice-Chair
Department of Psychiatry
Senior Scientist and Director, RAND
Health Initiative, RAND

For more information about the Center for Minority Health in the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh visit: http://www.cmh.pitt.edu