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The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) announced the appointment of Kelvin Choi, Ph.D., M.P.H., as the new scientific director of its Division of Intramural Research (DIR), effective November 17, 2024. Dr. Choi has served as acting scientific director since March 2023, following the retirement of former scientific director, Anna M. Nápoles, Ph.D.
NIH Launches Online Resource on Interventions to Reduce Health Disparities and Improve Minority Health
A new online resource, designed to provide easy access to interventions that improve minority health and reduce health disparities, was recently unveiled by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD).
The NIMHD Early Career Investigator Award is given to an early stage health disparities investigator who is making a significant impact with their research on health disparities. Learn more about the award.
Jorge A. Rodriguez, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Presentation at HDRI 2024
Striving for Digital Health
During the COVID-19 pandemic and at the height of the Black Lives Matter movement, researchers assembled a recruitment dream team and joined with African American men who are prostate cancer survivors to “do what is needed for future generations.”
African American men have disproportionately higher prostate cancer rates, with an earlier onset, and twice the prostate cancer mortality than other racial groups. These outcomes are difficult for University of Southern California (USC) researchers to accept.
