Web Resources

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

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Career Development

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Medical Students

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Centers and Programs on Minority and Community Health

Center for American Indian Research and Education (CAIRE)
American Indian Education Resources
Center for Research on Minority Health (CRMH) is a comprehensive investigational, educational and outreach component of The University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. It focuses on cancer and, ultimately, other health issues disproportionately affecting ethnic minorities and the medically underserved.
Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO) Research center dedicated to the study and interpretation of the Puerto Rican experience in the United States.
Center of Excellence in Diversity in Health Education and Research – University of Pennsylvania
Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, The Institute for Minority Health Research
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition investigates and disseminates information concerning all aspects of the Atlantic slave system and its destruction. Tangled Roots is a research project about the shared history of African Americans and Irish Americans.
Loka Institute is a non-profit research and advocacy organization concerned with the social, political, and environmental repercussions of science and technology and expanding opportunities for grassroots, public-interest group, everyday citizen, and worker involvement in vital facets of science and technology decision making.
Maharishi University of Management, College of Maharishi Vedic Medicine Center for Natural Medicine and Prevention
Maya Angelou Research Center on Minority Health new center established by the Wake Forest University School of Medicine to develop methods to close the health gap between minorities and the rest of the United States' population.
Midwest Latino Health Research, Training, and Policy Center
State University of New York at Albany, Center for Minority Health Research, Education and Training
Program on Ethnicity, Culture, and Health Outcomes (ECHO)
University of California at San Francisco, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, Collaborative HIV Prevention Research in Minority Communities This program is designed to assist investigators conducting HIV prevention research with ethnic minority communities.
University of Michigan, Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health
University of Pittsburgh, Center for Minority Health
University of Wisconsin, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in Medicine
Wellesley Centers for Women

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Selected U.S. Government Sites

NIH Strategic Plans to Eliminate Health Disparities

National Cancer Institute
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
National Institute of Drug Abuse
National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC) The NWHIC provides a gateway to the vast array of Federal and other women's health information resources. Our site on the World Wide Web can help you link to, read, and download a wide variety of women's health-related material developed by the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Defense, other federal agencies, and private sector resources.

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Non-U.S. Government Organizations (National)

The Access Project The Access Project is a national initiative of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded by a grant to the Heller Graduate School at Brandeis University. The project offers assistance to communities responding to the challenge of providing health care access to increasing numbers of people without insurance.
AAMC Medical Education: Community and Minority Programs
American College of Epidemiology - Committee on Minority Affairs
American Indian Policy Center (formerly known as American Indian Research and Policy Center) works to foster better-informed and culturally-sensitive responses to the challenges of American Indian life by providing government leaders, policy makers and the public with accurate information about the (1) legal and political history of American Indian nations and (2) contemporary situation for American
American Social Health Association is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention and control of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum
Association of American Indian Physicians
Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations
Association of Hispanic Health Care Executives
Association of MultiEthnic Americans (AMEA)
Black academic and professional organizations
Clinical Directors Network, Inc. is a not-for-profit network of primary care clinicians in Community/Migrant Health Centers, founded in 1985. Its mission is to provide and improve comprehensive and accessible community-oriented primary and preventive health care services for poor, minority, and underserved populations.
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1996 to foster health-promoting partnerships between communities and educational institutions.
Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership (CAPAL) CAPAL is a nonpartisan network of professionals in the Washington, D.C., area with a goal to increase APA participation and leadership in public policy and government.
Cross-Cultural Health Care Program addresses broad cultural issues that affect the health of individuals and families in ethnic minority communities in Seattle and nationwide serves as a bridge between communities and health care institutions to ensure full access to quality health care that is culturally and linguistically appropriate.
Data Center aims to provide social justice advocates, especially the poor and people of color, access to strategic information, analysis, and research skills that will help them conduct more effective campaigns.
Democracy Forum is a multiracial, nonprofit community organization doing historical research on racial violence in Central Florida's past.
DiversityConnection provides services to link minority health professionals and management candidates to healthcare job opportunities, leadership and mentoring programs. Candidates can post their confidential resume, network with other candidates, search for a mentor and peruse job openings; employers can post positions and search the database (jointly sponsored by the Institute for Diversity in Health Management, American Hospital Association, Association of Hispanic Health Care Executives, American College of Healthcare Executives, National Association of Health Services Executives)
DiversityLinks An annotated directory to more than 750 Web sites featuring educational, business, and governmental efforts to foster diversity and intercultural communication.
DiversityRx
DiversityWeb Diversity resources for institutions of higher education, developed by the American Association of Colleges and Universities and the University of Maryland, in collaboration with Diversity Connections and DiverseCD.
ExplorNet is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to improving technology-based learning in America's schools, particularly in traditionally underserved areas.
Health Disparities Collaboratives strive to achieve excellence in practice through the following goals: Generate and document improved health outcomes for underserved populations; Transform clinical practice through models of care, improvement and learning; Develop infrastructure, expertise and multi-disciplinary leadership to support and drive improved health status; and Build strategic partnerships.
Fund for Southern Communities (FSC) is a public foundation that supports and unites organizations and donors working to create just and sustainable communities that are free of oppression and that embrace and celebrate all people.
Health Web: Minority Health Education and Training
Hispanic Dropout Project
Hispanic Health Council, Inc.
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
A History of My People (African American history site)
Institute for African American Health, Inc. (IAAH)
Institute for Diversity in Health Management provides information, education, programs, and services to expand leadership opportunities to ethnic minorities in health services administration.
Institute for Southern Studies was founded in 1970 by veterans of the Civil Rights Movement. The Institute and its award-winning journal, Southern Exposure, have established a national reputation as an essential resource for grassroots activists, community leaders, scholars, policy makers and others working to bring lasting social and economic change to the South. Issues addressed over the years include the military in the South, the Klan, economic development, the nuclear industry, regional theater, the Civil Rights Movement, Native Americans, prisons, folk life, schools, the poultry industry, the savings and loan industry crisis, the devastating environmental impact of the growing hog industry, farmworkers, the environment, government and economy, privatization of adult prisons, and juvenile detention facilities.
Intercultural Cancer Council (ICC)
International Foundation for Education and Self-Help (IFESH) was established under the vision and leadership of Reverend Dr. Leon H. Sullivan to reduce hunger and poverty, empower people through literacy, train and place the unskilled and unemployed in jobs, provide preventive and basic health care to individuals in need, deal with population and environment problems, develop employment through economic development activities, and to foster cultural, social, and economic relations between Africans and Americans, particularly African Americans, and others.
International Society for Equity in Health (ISEqH) encourages advances in knowledge about the importance of equity in the improvement of the health of all people and promotes the application of knowledge to activities directed at this goal, with a primary emphasis on the contributions made by health services.
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies conducts research on public policy issues of special concern to black Americans and other minorities. The Joint Center provides independent analyses through research, publications, and outreach programs.
Kaiser Family Foundation has news, key facts, reports, publications, Web casts, fellowship programs, and other resources related to health disparities, health care for the underserved, reproductive health care, and other topics of interest, including searchable archives of Web casts and reports.
Minority Health section
KaiserNetwork.org - Web casts
Loka Institute is a nonprofit research and advocacy organization concerned with the social, political, and environmental repercussions of science and technology and expanding opportunities for grassroots, public-interest group, everyday citizen, and worker involvement in vital facets of science and technology decision making. Sponsors conferences and publications on community-based research.
Living Knowledge is an online database of science shops, community-based rganizations, universities, and funders for community-based research.
Mexican American Legal Defense Fund is a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to protect and promote the civil rights of the more than 35 million Latinos living in the United States.
Michigan State University Center for Urban Affairs Community and Economic Development Program
Midwest Latino Health Research, Training, and Policy Center
Minority Health Network
Minority Health Professions Foundation provides support for professional education, research and community service by engaging the collaborative resources, scholarship and technology of its 12-member medical, dental, pharmacy, and veterinary medicine schools in historically African American colleges and universities.
National Association of African American Studies (NAAAS)
National Association of Black Social Workers (NABSW)
National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies (NAHLS) National Association of Native American Studies (NANAS)
National Black Graduate Student Association, Inc. (NBGSA)
National Coalition of Hispanic Health and Human Services Organizations (COSSMHO)
National Council of La Raza (NCLR) is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan, tax-exempt organization established in 1968 to reduce poverty and discrimination, and improve life opportunities, for Hispanic Americans.
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) works for the civil rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people. Its Policy Institute conducts and disseminates research and policy analysis to advance the goals of equality and social justice for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people.
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute
National Hispana Leadership Institute (NHLI)
National Historical Black Colleges and Universities Health Services Research works to increase the capacity of HBCUs to develop and conduct health services research that addresses the health services needs of African Americans and other underserved populations.
National Latino Council on Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention (LCAT)
National Native American AIDS Prevention Center (NNAAPC)
National Video Resources assists in increasing access to independently-produced media, including film, video, and digital media.
Viewing Race is a comprehensive resource for organizations involved in programs on race and a forum for video users to share their experiences.
National Women's Health Information Center - Minority Women
Native American Cancer Research in Pine, Colorado, develops and implements culturally relevant and acceptable cancer prevention and control research projects within local, regional, and national Native American communities: National Strategic Plan For Cancer Prevention and Control to Benefit the Overall Health of American Indians and Alaska Natives, and Native American Breast Cancer Survivor's Network seeks to improve survival and quality of life for the breast cancer patient and her loved ones.
Native American Sites maintained by Lisa Mitten, Social Science Editor for Choice Magazine
Native Circle offers American Crafts, American Indian Crafts, Teaching, Politics and Wisdom is a newsletter and more.
Navajo Nation is the largest Native American tribe in the Southwest.
Opportunities Industrialization Centers, founded by Rev. Leon Sullivan in 1964, is the largest network of training centers in the world.
Planners' Network is an association of professionals, activists, academics, and students involved in physical, social, economic and environmental planning in urban and rural areas, who promote fundamental change in our political and economic system.
Prevención, Inc. uses a national network of Spanish-language radio and television outlets, print media and the world wide web to foster health promotion and disease prevention among the United States Latino population. (Prevencion, Inc. se esfuerza en producir programas y materiales educativos en salud que sean cultural y étnicamente relevantes para los Hispanos y que sean basados en hechos científicamente demostrados. Su meta principal es la de mejorar la calidad de vida de todos los hispano parlantes, especialmente los de poca educación, bajos ingresos y acceso limitado a la información médica de calidad.)
Promising Practices Network (PPN) highlights programs and practices that credible research indicates are effective in improving outcomes for children, youth, and families. The information pertains to children from the prenatal period to age 18, as well as the families and communities in which they live. This site provides useful information to policymakers, practitioners, and program funders who must choose among many possibilities for improving results for children, youth, and families.
Public Health Institute (PHI) promotes independent, innovative research, training and demonstration programs, many in collaboration with the private health care system and community-based organizations. PHI also supports government's role in assessment, policy development, and assurance.
Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network is a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C., dedicated to improving the education of African Americans, Alaska Natives, American Indians, Mexican Americans, and Puerto Ricans.
Race, Racism, and the Law examines the role of the law in promoting and/or alleviating racism. The site includes statutes, cases, excerpts of law review articles, annotated bibliographies, and other documents related to race and racism.
Racial Legacies and Learning A joint project of PBS Adult Learning Service and the
American Association of Colleges and Universities
Redes En Accion Cancer Network for Hispanics/Latinos in the U.S.
Society for the Analysis of African American Health Issues (SAAPHI)
Rev. Leon Sullivan (1922-2001), was an African American preacher, social activist, and educator responsible for leading international efforts to promote nonviolent social and economic change. Among his many accomplishments, he was a major force in increasing job opportunities for African Americans and in ending apartheid in South Africa.
Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native American in Science (SACNAS) encourages Chicano/Latino and Native American students to pursue graduate education and to obtain the advanced degrees necessary for research careers and science teaching professions at all levels.
South Africa Partners, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the development of long-term partnership opportunities between the United States and South Africa.
Southeast Community Research Center-Atlanta conducts participatory and community-based research in the City of Atlanta and throughout the Southeastern United States.
Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)
SPLC Teaching Tolerance Project Spirit of 1848 e-mail list has frequent announcements and information about social justice and public health topics. To subscribe, send a message to spiritof1848-subscribe@egroups.com with the word "subscribe" (without quotes) in the subject line.
Student National Medical Association is the oldest and largest medical student organization dedicated to people of color and underserved communities.
The Black Young Professionals Public Health Network was conceptualized at the 128th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association (APHA) held in Boston, MA, November of 2000. It was established in recognition of an increased need for more deliberate and concerted opportunities for professional development of African Americans in the APHA and in the public health field.
Transcultural C.A.R.E. Associates is a private consultation service which focuses on clinical, administrative, research, and educational issues related to transcultural health care and mental health.
Utah Ethnic Health Programs - Utah Department of Health
Mental Health Organizations and Their Events, A Worldwide Calendar and Locator Resource, compiled by Myron Pulier, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, New Jersey Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey