CDH is a valuable resource for faculty, researchers, and students. Please contact us for assistance with:

• Access to Expertise. Our staff provides expertise on minority health issues, health disparities and cultural competence as it relates to developing research and communications. Our knowledge can enhance your research proposals, research-based manuscripts, and course content.
  
  
• Research Mentoring. Our office provides mentoring to new and/or inexperienced post-docs and faculty investigators. We can help you identify targeted research experiences or help you join an established research team exploring minority health and health disparity topics.
  
  
• Funding Assistance. We can help you to identify and apply for federal and other funding to support research, education/training, and community partnership-building initiatives focused on minority health, health disparities, and community-based participatory research and education initiatives.
  
  We also assist new investigators and junior faculty interested in health disparity research to apply for supplemental funds from the National Institutes of Health to support pre- and post-doctoral training opportunities.
  
  
• Protocol Guidance. We provide guidance for drafting successful, culturally appropriate protocols that meet required Office of Human Subjects regulations.
  
  We also invite you to visit our Affiliation page to learn more about the benefits of CDH affiliation, and our Frequently Asked Questions page to answer any additional questions you may have about CDH.
  
  
• Linking to Community Partners. The CDH has a growing list of community partners across Wisconsin. We welcome opportunities to assist in developing community partnerships for the purpose of community-based participatory research, acquiring community perspectives on education, training, or other initiatives, or gathering general guidance about establishing strong and sustainable community-academic partnerships.
  
  
• Curriculum Enhancements. The CDH helps instructors and others on campus create or enhance course content that targets cultural competence, intercultural communication, minority health, and/or health disparities.
  
  
• Recruitment of Minority Faculty, Staff and Students. The CDH was established by the School of Medicine and Public Health to address minority health and health disparities in Wisconsin. Critical to this task is our program's commitment to attracting and retaining diverse scholars from interdisciplinary fields who share an interest in disparities in health, cultural competence of health and social service providers, and structured opportunities to ‘give back’ to underserved communities.