Center for Health Equality Research

Mission

~ To improve the heath of priority populations through research that examines ways to expand access to health care, increases the quality of health care services, and informs health policy and practice;
~ To initiate and lead implementation programs to translate this research into practice.

An advisory board of distinguished health services researchers and policy-makers guides the strategic development of the Center for Health Equality Research. The center focuses on research related to eliminating health disparities, a critical issue for the population of Louisiana. It is a collaborative effort between the Tulane schools of public health and medicine. It is physically housed in the Department of Health Systems Management in the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.


Survey for Tulane Faculty

The school's strategic plan includes a focus on health disparities and inequalities in access to care and in health outcomes. We would appreciate faculty participation in the following survey, which will help us examine health disparity research underway in the Health Sciences Center.

Click to begin the Health Disparities Survey

Co-directors:

Karen B. DeSalvo, associate professor of medicine
chief of general internal medicine and geriatrics
Tulane University
School of Medicine
http://www.som.tulane.edu/departments/gimger/

Claudia Campbell, chair and professor
health systems management
Tulane University
School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
http://hsm.tulane.edu