Our Purpose
The Greensboro Health Disparities Collaborative represents a diverse team of more than 25 community leaders and advocates, public health researchers, university faculty and staff, clergy, healthcare professionals, and other members of the Greensboro community. Members of the Collaborative are committed to better understanding and reducing racial and ethnic health disparities.
The Collaborative brings together the work of the Partnership Project in Undoing Racism with the expertise of UNC research faculty in community-based participatory research.
About Us
Under the leadership of the Partnership Project in Greensboro and the University of North Carolina Program on Ethnicity, Culture and Health Outcomes (ECHO), the formation of the Greensboro Health Disparities Collaborative began in 2003 as the two organizations worked together to develop a research proposal to address disparities in health care due to race.
An 18-month planning grant was awarded to the Partnership Project from the Moses Cone-Wesley Long Community Health Foundation to create a community-based health disparities task force. The task force, to later be known as the Greensboro Health Disparities Collaborative, would be charged with designing an exploratory community-based participatory research (CBPR) study to generate hypotheses about variables within health care institutions that may contribute to racial disparities in health care.
In designing the study, the Collaborative would apply the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond approach to undoing racism to:
- Establish a research partnership;
- Understand and agree on the language for a social/political analysis of racism in creating racial disparities; and
- Design a study to identify characteristics of the structure and climate of a local medical community that may contribute to disparities in health care outcomes
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