Lab to Eliminate Disparities

Left to right- Maliha Mir, Sahar Ahmed, and Abbas Karim at the Global Health Symposium

Alaa Khurram (on the right) poster presentation with Dr. Lee (on the left)

Thomas D. Graves (left) and Daniel P. Leblanc (right) presentation at the Global Health Symposium

CEHD co-hosted the screening of RESILIENCE: THE BIOLOGY OF STRESS AND THE SCIENCE OF HOPE on June 28th, 2017 at Rosenberg Library. 110 people attended the film screening.

June 28 - Join CEHD & the Adverse Childhood & Community Experiences (ACEs) Collaborative for a FREE screening of the film, "Resilience: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope," at Rosenberg Library in Galveston. Networking, lunch, screening (12-1pm) & Campfire Session about the great work happening in our community.

Article by Shanley Chien on April 5, 2017. The Texas Medical Center Health Policy Institute hosted Tuesday evening a conversation between the inaugural winners of the Grant Program in Collaborative Health Policy Research and a panel of experts. Students, faculty, doctors, nurses and other members of the health care community attended the event where researchers presented the culmination of their yearlong research endeavors. FULL ARTICLE AT: http://www.tmc.edu/news/2017/04/tmc-health-policy-institute-inaugural-grant-winners-present-findings/

This is the 15th Annual Disparities in Health in America: Working Toward Social Justice Workshop, which will take place from June 19th to June 24th at the Texas Medical Center (Shell Auditorium). You can register early to take advantage of the discount. More information will be available soon. UTMB is a sponsor: www.hdeartconsortium.org.

Funded through a grant from the Texas Medical Center (TMC) Health Policy Institute, this research report uncovers government policies, agency practices and environmental factors associated with the health of child migrants fleeing violence from Central America and Mexico and their ability to receive adequate healthcare in the United States. A cross-disciplinary research team from four TMC institutions (University of Texas Medical Branch, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital, and University of Houston Clearlake) produced this report.

CEHD was proud to take part in the first CHAMP (Child Health Acceleration through Multi-site Planning) meeting on January 24, 2016 at the University of California – Irvine. Our team is studying, among other issues, how the income inequality of parents can adversely affect the health of their children.

Seafarers are people who live and work at sea. They contribute to the majority of global trade via the shipping industry, yet are an understudied population. Their transient lives make them easily forgotten, as they often spend no more than a couple of days at each port they visit. A focus on seafarers in public and global health policies is vital, especially with the imbalance between documenting land travel and migrant health versus sea travel and migrant health.