The University of Florida Health Disparities Research and Intervention Program (UF HDRIP) was launched in May, 2010 as a university-wide program based in the College of Medicine. The program was initiated by President Bernie Machen, Dr. Winfred Phillips (VP of Research), Dean Michael Good (College of Medicine), and Dr. Carolyn M. Tucker (Richard and Thelma O. C. Barney Term Professor of Health Disparities, College of Medicine). Dr. Tucker is also the Florida Blue Endowed Chair in Health Disparities Research, and serves as Director of the UF HDRIP.
Goals
- To eliminate health disparities by fostering partnerships among patients, providers, community members, educators, administrators, and researchers to achieve the following broad goals
- Promote health and well-being among racial/ethnic minorities, the poor, and the underserved
- Assure the delivery of patient-centered culturally sensitive health care to all patients
- Recruit and retain racially/ethnically diverse faculty and students who are interested in medicine or other health professions
- Increase community-based participatory health research in racial/ethnic minority communities
- Develop, test, and institutionalize evidence-based interventions targeting obesity and other health problems that have a disproportionately negative impact on racial/ethnic minorities, the poor, and the underserved