Administrative Core

在完成这一申请的过程中，pi有机会调查并与MCG校园内从事广泛的健康差异和少数民族健康研究及相关活动的一些调查人员交谈。通过这一过程，很明显，在这一领域的研究和活动比我们最初预期的要多得多。然而，我们还发现，没有一个中心位置可以让那些对少数民族健康和/或健康差异研究感兴趣的人聚集在一起，分享研究想法和问题，寻找合作者，展示他们的发现，更重要的是与

In the process of completing this application the PIs have had the opportunity to investigate and speak to a number of investigators on the MCG campus engaged in a wide range of health disparity and minority health research and related activities. Through this process it became evident that there is much more research and activity in this area then we first expected. However, what we also discovered is that there is no central location were those interested in minority health and/or health disparity research could come together to share research ideas and questions, find collaborators, present their findings and more importantly to connect with the populations this research was designed to help. The establishment of a Center of Excellence would be an initial step in the recognition of the importance of and centralization of health disparity research on the MCG campus.