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Program in Health Disparities Research

Eliminating Health Disparities | Promoting Health Equity

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Research

The PHDR is driven to improve health for all through research that identifies, explains, and addresses health inequities.

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Community Engagement

The PHDR addresses health inequities by engaging communities as partners in research and programmatic activities.

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Education

The PHDR builds educational programs that support a diverse research workforce prepared to create community-engaged solutions to pressing health inequities.

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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.

 

Headlines

C2DREAM: Looking Back and Moving Forward Toward Eliminating Health Inequities

As its fifth year comes to a close, C2DREAM leaves behind a legacy of cross-collaboration and community-led partnership in research.

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Twenty Years of PHDR: Community-Engaged Research’s Lasting Impact

Celebrating two decades of impact, the University of Minnesota’s Program in Health Disparities Research (PHDR) transformed community-engaged research from an overlooked initiative into a mainstream academic standard, redefining institutional excellence, trust, and research funding along the way.

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SoLaHmo: A Legacy of Community-driven Research

When thinking about how traditional research works, it’s common to focus on a deficit model. Researchers tend to put community populations under the microscope for perceived sickness. Since its inception nearly two decades ago, the Somali, Latino, and Hmong Partnership for Health and Wellness, known as SoLaHmo, has turned that approach on its head.

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Education
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M-ASCEND Interns
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Affiliated Faculty
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Core Faculty
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T32 Trainees
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HELM Fellows

About the Artwork

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.