CHEER
Special Announcement
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is preparing a Special
Issue on Health Care Equity.
Deadline for submission is July 31, 2018
Special Issue Editors: Shelley I. White-Means and Darrell J. Gaskin
For details, visit this page.
The Consortium for Health Education, Economic Empowerment and Research (CHEER) is a community-based participatory health disparities research center funded by the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities. CHEER has as its primary mission to: engage in community-based collaborations to accomplish research and incorporate the role of community assets and personal economic efficacy in order to drive healthy lifestyles for at risk persons of all racial and ethnic backgrounds in Memphis and the Mississippi Delta region. We expect these efforts to result in new and innovative approaches to address high rates of chronic illnesses for persons who live in the Delta region and to mitigate racial/ethnic inequities in health status.
CHEER has four specific aims:
- To inform the design of intervention strategies aimed at reducing population health disparities by developing outcomes measures and monitoring signals to assess progress in impacting health of urban African-American and immigrant populations in Memphis and surrounding Delta regions of poverty;
- To develop and implement transdisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and inter-institutional basic, behavioral, clinical, and population-based research on health disparities.
- To actively engage community representatives and health-care providers in collaboratively setting priorities for research, outreach and assessing activities that address health disparities; and
- To attract, retain and educate trans-disciplinary professionals sensitive to the need to prepare, disseminate, and implement use of culturally relevant and research-based health education materials and interventions in work in Memphis and the surrounding Delta region.
The CHEER Partnership
CHEER was initially founded as a partnership of seven organizations who worked together to develop, share, and implement research priorities that impacted minority health and reduced health inequities. The founding collaborating organizations included the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), Methodist Le Bonheur Hospital, LeMoyne-Owen College (LOC), the Memphis and Shelby County Health Department (MSCHD), Memphis Housing Authority (MHA), First Baptist Church Lauderdale (FBCL), and Mustard Seed Inc (MS). Initial funding for CHEER was made possible (in part) by 1P20MD005118-01 from the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities. Subsequent funding has been provided by The Assisi Foundation of Memphis, Inc. and Tennessee Department of Health.
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