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The Center for Health Disparities Solutions (CHDS) is a collaboration between Morgan State University and The Johns Hopkins University. The Center brings together the health-research and program development resources of the two Baltimore-based universities to demonstrate the efficacy of public health, social science, and medical science in impacting health disparities. We propose to do this through inter-institutional efforts in research, training, and community outreach. The Center has a national focus, but much of our work is in the local Baltimore community.

The Morgan-Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Studies leverages the resources of three Morgan State University organizational entities and five Johns Hopkins University organizational entities. The MSU organizational entities are the Prevention Research Center, the Public Health Program, and the School of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences. The JHU organizational entities are the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, the Health Services Research & Development Center, the Biostatistics Center, and the Urban Health Institute.

The CHDS is designated as a national Comprehensive Center of Excellence in Health Disparities by the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) of the National Institutes of Health. CHDS was established October 2002 by a grant from NCMHD under the Centers of Excellence in Partnerships for Community Outreach, Research on Health Disparities and Training program (Project EXPORT).

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