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The National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute has awarded the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the UAB Minority Health & Health Equity Research Center $9.6 million over five years t
The future has much potential as the REACH Up and Out program hopes to continue to make an impact on the lives of Black women in the Deep South. Written by: Susan Driggers Media contact: Adam Pope The future has much pot...
email article When David Hicks, DO, MPH, deputy health officer for Jefferson County in Alabama, was asked in an interview a month before the release of the first COVID-19 vaccine if he would get it, he said he didn't yet have the information to make an informed decision. Now he does. Vaccines were approved, he did his research, and he got vaccinated. Now each day he's out front of his community sharing what he's learned and recounting his experience. In consultation with bioethicists, Hicks and his colleagues have crafted what he calls an "all-hands-on-deck" strategy, enlisting faith le...
Reply UAB recently researched the perception of the coronavirus by the state's minority communities. (Shutterstock) BIRMINGHAM, AL — New research by the University of Alabama at Birmingham was published recently examining the impact of COVID-19 on African Americans living in minority communities in Alabama. The study was conducted by investigators Lori Bateman, Ph.D., and Yu-Mei Schoenberger, Ph.D., as part of community engagement initiatives of UAB's Obesity Health Disparities Research Center. Early in the pandemic, virtual focus groups were conducted in five urban and rural Alabama commu...