Center for the Study of Cultural Diversity in Healthcare
Welcome
The Center for the Study of Cultural Diversity in Healthcare (CDH) is committed to developing culturally competent research and education/training programs; identifying pathways to eliminate health disparities among minority and vulnerable populations; serving as a resource for the School of Medicine and Public Health to create an environment supportive of diverse faculty, staff, and students; and adopting interdisciplinary approaches to improving health outcomes through the formation of strategic partnerships among academia, government, and communities located in Wisconsin.
In July, 2007, Gloria Johnson-Powell, MD, the School's first Associate Dean for Cultural Diversity and the founding Director of the Center for the Study of Cultural Diversity in Healthcare (CDH), retired. To assure the continuation of infrastructure support of research in health disparities, community-academic partnership building focused on disparities in health and health outcomes, and continuing support for development of a more diverse faculty, the CDH is transitioning into the School’s newly established Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR): www.uwictr.wisc.edu.
Christine Sorkness, PharmD, is the Interim Director of the CDH. She brings a long interest in health disparities, most notably in the area of childhood and adult asthma. Dr. Sorkness is the director of the UW Asthma, Allergy, and Pulmonary Clinical Research Program, and a co-investigator with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases-funded Inner City Asthma Consortium, housed at UW. She has served as principal investigator of research initiatives involving such community partners as Head Start, exploring approaches to improve asthma outcomes among preschool aged, high risk children.
Dr. Sorkness is also the Associate Director of the ICTR.
Under the leadership of Dr. Sorkness, the CDH will continue to serve as a resource for the SMPH and the campus in creating an environment supportive of diverse faculty, staff, and students. We will also maintain our role as a clearinghouse for activities related to minority and immigrant health, disparities in health and health outcomes, and the education and training of culturally competent healthcare researchers of tomorrow.
Our activities are organized into three main components:Please visit our How CDH Can Help You and Frequently Asked Questions pages to learn more about the specific services we provide.
We welcome you to our Center, and encourage you to contact us!
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CDH Speaker Series
To view past presentations from the CDH Speaker Series on minority health, health disparities and cultural competence, please click here.
Upcoming Presentations
April 23, 2008
Jeanette South-Paul, MD
Faculty, University of Pittsburgh
School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine
5-6pm; HSLC 1345
April 29, 2008
M. Christopher Gibbons
Faculty, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute
Director, Center for Community HEALTH
5-6pm; HSLC 1345
May 2, 2008
Jennie Joe, PhD, MPH
Faculty, University of Arizona
College of Medicine, Department of Family and Communtiy Medicine
Director, Native American Research and Training Center
12-1pm; 1335 HSLC
"Wisconsin Minority Health Report, 2001-2005"
The Minority Health Program in the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services (DHFS) is pleased to announce the release of its new publication: "Wisconsin Minority Health Report, 2001-2005" This report compiles information about the health of Wisconsin's African American, American Indian, Asian, and Hispanic/Latino populations. You can find the new report on the Department's internest site.
Much of the data presented in this report has been previously published, primarily in online reference table updates. The purpose of this report is to make health information more readily available to
the communities and policymakers working to eliminate health disparities in Wisconsin.
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