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Vision: Be a trailblazer in achieving healthy communities through engaged research, education, and advocacy
Annual Community Research Dissemination Day 2025 Uncharted Waters
Continuing the Important Work We Do and Supporting Our Partners in Challenging Times
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We value the partner ships that we have fostered with community organizations.
Both the ones that we have forged on our own, as well as the ones we have gained via our Pilot Awardee Projects.
These partnerships have led to an immense amount of collaboration as well as furthering our mission.
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Over 10 Years of Focused Research
We have made it our mission to reduce health disparities by researching root causes, mechanisms, and interventions – educating students, providers, and policy makers – and partnering with community organizations and government agencies.



















Events
The Mary Elizabeth Connors Professorship in Critical Care Research
J. Daryl Thornton, MD, MPH, FACP, ATSF is the Director of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine and the Director of the Center for Health Equity, Engagement, Education