Eliminating Health Disparities | Promoting Health Equity
The PHDR is driven to improve health for all through research that identifies, explains, and addresses health inequities.
The PHDR addresses health inequities by engaging communities as partners in research and programmatic activities.
The PHDR builds educational programs that support a diverse research workforce prepared to create community-engaged solutions to pressing health inequities.
Michele L. Allen, MD, MS
Director
The Program in Health Disparities Research, headed by Dr. Michele Allen, is housed within the University of Minnesota Medical School. The Program in Health Disparities Research is driven to improve health for all through research, education, community engagement, and policy.
The Image at the top of this page is a graphic recording of the June 2022 Health Equity Conference by artist Rio Holaday on behalf of our C2DREAM program, an NIHMD P50 research center grant co-managed by PHDR with our UMN colleagues at the School of Public Health, as well as the Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute and Mayo Clinic.
See more of Rio's work here. See other graphic recordings by Rio as well as video from the June 2022 event here.
Sincere thanks to Rio for her beautiful work!