Center for the Study of Cultural Diversity in Healthcare
Welcome
UPDATE WINTER 2008-2009
The Center will be revising its website in Spring, 2009 to reflect an enhanced mission and vision. Your patience continues to be appreciated during this period of transition.
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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 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 has transitioned 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.
If you have any questions about our programming, please contact Sarah Esmond, MS, Project Manager for the CDH by phone at (608) 263-9401 or by e-mail cdh@hslc.wisc.edu.
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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.
Third Annual Health Disparities Conference in New Orleans - April 19-21, 2009
The Xavier University of Louisiana College of Pharmacy's Third Annual Health Disparities Conference, Building Partnerships to Eliminate Health Disparities: Effective Chronic Disease Management Models to Improve Health Outcomes, will present educational and informational workshops and general sessions related to increasing scientific, clinical and research knowledge about health disparities and healthy behaviors. For more information, please visit: xula09.the1joshuagroup.com
Pre-regiatration deadline is April 3.
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