The Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions (HCHDS) was established October 2002 by a grant from National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD), of the National Institutes of Health under the Centers of Excellence in Partnerships for Community Outreach, Research on Health Disparities, and Training program (Project EXPORT). The Center brings together the health-research and program development resources of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes (Schools of Public Health, Medicine, and Nursing) to demonstrate the efficacy of public health, social science, and medical science in impacting health disparities. We do this through efforts in research, training, and community outreach. The Center has a national focus, but much of our work takes place in the local Baltimore community... 
The HCHDS leverages its resources by forming collaborations with other Johns Hopkins-based academic departments or research units, establishing partnerships with colleagues at other universities and organizations, and being active in all aspects of the university’s mission: research, teaching, and service. The JHU-based organizational entities the HCHDS has been associated with include the Department of Gastroenterology, School of Medicine; the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, the Health Services Research & Development Center, the Biostatistics Center, the Urban Health Institute, and the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy.
In addition to the JHU-based partnerships we have collaborations with other entities outside of the university, which include the National Institute on Aging, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology of the Gerontology Research Center; Shaw University; Operation Reach Out South West – OROSW; and Nora, LLC. The HCHDS is designated as a national Comprehensive Center of Excellence in Health Disparities by the NCMHD of the National Institutes of Health. Please click here for membership eligibility. |
