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  Welcome to CHERP

Welcome to the online home of the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion's collaborations. This site is a resource for our stakeholders and our collaborative partners. The VA Center for Health Equity and Promotion (CHERP) web site is: www.cherp.research.va.gov

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Study lists inequities blacks face, Infant mortality has decreased, but a significant gap remains in rates for black and white infants. College enrollment has increased, but black students from Boston remain underrepresented in college classrooms. Blacks with the same income as whites were denied home loans at a rate nearly twice as high. And while the achievement gap is narrowing, a wide gulf remains between the numbers of black and Latino students who are at or above grade level and their white and Asian counterparts. more...

"Care of the Underserved" certification modules for American Board of Internal Medicine, CHERP’s Judith A Long, MD, recently led the Society for General Internal Medicine (SGIM) Disparities Task Force efforts to provide the American Board of Internal Medicine with educational materials for their certification modules on “Care of the Underserved.” more...


CHERP News

ABC News: "Unconscious Racial Bias Shapes Whom We Trust", A report on ABC World News tonight titled “Unconscious Racial Bias Shapes Whom We Trust”included an interview with Leslie Hausmann, PhD. Dr. Hausmann’s article “Impact of Perceived Discrimination in Healthcare on Patient-Provider Communication” was published in the July 2011 issue of Medical Care. C. Kent Kwoh, MD and Said Ibrahim, MD, MPH, were co-authors of the article. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/unconscious-racial-bias-shapes-trust-money/story?id=13437350 more...

A Place to Call Home: Secure Housing as a Keystone of Young People’s Health highlighted on National Public Radio series, “A Place to Call Home: Secure Housing as a Keystone of Young People’s Health,” a white paper co-authored by CHERP Core Investigator Carolynn Cannuscio, ScD, was featured in a series of five reports on “Newsworks” on National Public Radio’s WHYY-FM. http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/item/21640 more...

VA CHERP Investigator Lauren Broyles Receives AMERSA New Investigator Award, Lauren Matukaitis Broyles, PhD, RN, Core Investigator, VA Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, received the 2010 New Investigator Award from the Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse (AMERSA). more...


Research Findings

Family history and colorectal cancer screening: a survey of physician knowledge and practice patterns, more...

Family history and colorectal cancer screening: a survey of physician knowledge and practice patterns, more...

  Current Publications

CHERP Health Disparities Primer - An Introduction to Health Disparities


CHERP Policy Brief

Improving End-of-Life
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