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$19.3 million NIH grant for New York Center For Minority Health Equity and Social Justice
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Dr. Green announces a significant $19.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded to CUNY School of Medicine to create the New York Center For Minority Health Equity and Social Justice.
- The grant is the largest NIH grant ever awarded to CUNY in its 175-year history
- The center will be the only research center for minority institutions in the entire Northern United States
- It will focus on Harlem and the South Bronx, areas with significant educational and health disparities
- The center aims to support research, build an integrated ecosystem to tackle healthcare disparities, and foster partnerships to improve population health outcomes
Carmen Renée Green
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We are extremely proud to be awarded a $19,300,000 grant over 5 years from the National Institutes of Health to create the New Institutes of Health to create the New York Center For Minority Health Equity and Social Justice at CUNY School of Medicine.
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Becoming the only research center for minority institutions in the northern in the entire Northern United States.
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This is the largest NIH grants ever awarded to CUNY in its 175 history.
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And clearly, we're proud.
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With a clear focus on Harlem and the South Bronx, areas with troubling educational health disparities, the center will support research on the interrelated problems of underserved communities in these areas.
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Build an integrated ecosystem to tackle healthcare disparities health and healthcare disparities, and foster partnerships with local and national networks to improve population health and healthcare outcomes.
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One last point before I turn to how we can work together.
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CUNY School of Medicine students intrinsically understand the social determinants of health, and they deeply care about vulnerable and underserved populations and communities.
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They bring this intrinsic knowledge to their patients in the communities they serve.
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Communities similar to where they were raised.
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I recently was checking in was checking in on our students rotating, Jacobi North Central Bronx.
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While meeting with members of their executive leadership team, a department chair pulled me aside to say, Doctor.
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Green, I've taught a lot of medical students, but yours are special.
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He highlight he highlighted their empathy, their compassion, and their care.
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And how they provided care for the person in the gown, in the bed, not the patient.
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He went on to tell me how many SOPHIE grads were at the hospital, often speaking of them by name.
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Essentially, CUNY School of Medicine is unlocking potential.
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And upon graduation, as these students walk across the stage, there's a huge return on investment.
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These students are my why.
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And it gives me pleasure to watch their impact grow in spread across institutions and to their patients.
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Simply, quite simply, we are producing the doctors that New York needs and who New Yorkers want to see.
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We believe talent is equally distributed and a student should be able to go as far as their hard work and talent can take them.
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However, resources are not equally distributed.
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Contributing to contributing to educational and health disparities.
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Thus, we at CUNY School of Medicine are committed to addressing the social determinants of medical education, to enhance access to careers in medicine, and to enhance the outcomes of medical education.