Identifying Investigators
The CDH has affiliations with more than 40 interdisciplinary investigators who are conducting biomedical, social demography and epidemiology, and behavioral health studies relevant to minority health and health disparities.

Study topics include asthma, obesity, post-partum depression, teen suicide, cardiac health and teenage pregnancy. Our affiliated researchers work on the UW–Madison campus, in Milwaukee, and at universities across the nation.

 View CDH Affiliates List
  To read more about the January 2006 Affiliates Meeting, click here.

Investigator Support
The CDH supports minority health and health disparities research in a variety of ways, including:

• Connections to others on campus, in Madison, in Wisconsin and nationally who share interest in and expertise on minority health/health disparities; see our video library of presentations here.
• Assistance with identifying and applying for federal and other funding to support research, education/training, and community partnership-building initiatives focused on minority health and health disparities;
  
• Access to expertise on minority health issues, health disparities and intercultural communciations -- expertise that can enhance your research proposals, staff training initiatives, research-based manuscripts, course content, etc;
  
• Assistance linking to experts in the Behavioral and Social Science; researchers who partner with multiple underserved, minority and/or immigrant communities in Wisconsin and elsewhere;
  
• Mentoring to new and/or inexperienced investigators interested in targeted research experiences and/or membership on an established research team exploring minority health/health disparitiy areas; and
  
• Assistance with applying for supplemental funds from the NIH to support pre- and post-doctoral training opportunities for minority researchers and junior faculty interested in health disparity research.