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Health Equity Research Education Program

Grant Writing Retreat

February 21-23, 2024

Birmingham, Alabama


 

Annual Presidents’ Video Conference

March 18, 2024




Program Steering Committee Meeting

March 25-26, 2024

Opelika, Alabama




Internal Advisory Committee Meeting

July 24, 2024


Cancer Research Symposium

July 24-25, 2024

Birmingham, Alabama



Training Opportunities



2024 PRSTP Application

2024 PRSTP Flyer

Latest in news


 
MSM/TU/O'Neal CCC request for Pilot project application - 2024 

UAB, 2 other schools receive coll ective $18 million grant

Cancer doesn’t care about equality, so this program encourages diverse scholars to care more about cancer

Partnering Institutions

Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM)
Tuskegee University (TU)
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)


Principal Investigators

MSM: 
Brian Rivers, PhD  -Contact-PI
 
James Lillard, PhD

TU:
Timothy Turner, PhD -Contact-PI
Vivian Carter, PhD
Windy Dean-Colomb, MD

UAB:
Upender Manne, PhD -Contact-PI
Isabel Scarinci, PhD


Program Managers

 MSM: Jennifer Creighton
     TU: Chiquita Lee
  UAB: Suzanne Byan-Parker

 

Upcoming Events


Health Equity Research Education Program

Grant Writing Retreat

February 21-23, 2024

Birmingham, Alabama


 

Annual Presidents’ Video Conference

March 18, 2024




Program Steering Committee Meeting

March 25-26, 2024

Opelika, Alabama




Internal Advisory Committee Meeting

July 24, 2024


Cancer Research Symposium

July 24-25, 2024

Birmingham, Alabama



Training Opportunities



2024 PRSTP Application

2024 PRSTP Flyer

Latest in news


 
MSM/TU/O'Neal CCC request for Pilot project application - 2024 

UAB, 2 other schools receive coll ective $18 million grant

Cancer doesn’t care about equality, so this program encourages diverse scholars to care more about cancer

Partnering Institutions

Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM)
Tuskegee University (TU)
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)


Principal Investigators

MSM: 
Brian Rivers, PhD  -Contact-PI
 
James Lillard, PhD

TU:
Timothy Turner, PhD -Contact-PI
Vivian Carter, PhD
Windy Dean-Colomb, MD

UAB:
Upender Manne, PhD -Contact-PI
Isabel Scarinci, PhD


Program Managers

 MSM: Jennifer Creighton
     TU: Chiquita Lee
  UAB: Suzanne Byan-Parker

 

Steering Committee

Jeroan J. Allison
, MD, EPI 
(CHAIR)

EXPERTISE: Disparities in Health care Outcomes 

Sandra Million Underwood, RN, PhD
EXPERTISE: Nursing; Cancer Education & Research

Gerald Sonnenfeld
, PhD

EXPERTISE: Basic Science; Microbiology & Immunology
 
John Stone,
MD, PhD

EXPERTISE: Bioethics

Laritza M. Rodriguez
MD, PhD
National Cancer Institute

EXPERTISE: Reducing Cancer Health Disparities
 
 
H. Nelson Aguila
D.V.M.
National Cancer Institute

EXPERTISE: Reducing Cancer Health Disparities
 

Jorge A. Marrero
M.D, M.S
EXPERTISE: Advanced liver disease and transplant hepatology


Advisory Committee

Morehouse School of Medicine

Dr. John H. Stewart, IV, MD, MBA, FACS
EXPERTISE: Surgical oncology  
Sheila McClure, PhD


Tuskegee University

Vijaya K. Rangari, PhD
Chastity Bradford, PhD

University of Alabama at Birmingham
Selvarangan Ponnazhagan, PhD


 




Steering Committee

Jeroan J. Allison
, MD, EPI 
(CHAIR)

EXPERTISE: Disparities in Health care Outcomes 

Sandra Million Underwood, RN, PhD
EXPERTISE: Nursing; Cancer Education & Research

Gerald Sonnenfeld
, PhD

EXPERTISE: Basic Science; Microbiology & Immunology
 
John Stone,
MD, PhD

EXPERTISE: Bioethics

Laritza M. Rodriguez
MD, PhD
National Cancer Institute

EXPERTISE: Reducing Cancer Health Disparities
 
 
H. Nelson Aguila
D.V.M.
National Cancer Institute

EXPERTISE: Reducing Cancer Health Disparities
 

Jorge A. Marrero
M.D, M.S
EXPERTISE: Advanced liver disease and transplant hepatology


Advisory Committee

Morehouse School of Medicine

Dr. John H. Stewart, IV, MD, MBA, FACS
EXPERTISE: Surgical oncology  
Sheila McClure, PhD


Tuskegee University

Vijaya K. Rangari, PhD
Chastity Bradford, PhD

University of Alabama at Birmingham
Selvarangan Ponnazhagan, PhD