Health Disparities

The UT Health Disparities Center.  The Health Disparities Center was created to address health access and outcome disparity issues in 2002.  It was merged into the Outreach Center in April 2004. Since the merge in April, the Outreach Center has entered into a contractual agreement with the National Library of Medicine to develop a database to test and demonstrate the feasibility and usefulness of an interactive web-based national health disparities data map.  This data map serves as a valuable research and service tool to combat the health disparities that are having an increasingly catastrophic effect on our nation’s ability to meet healthcare needs and contain escalating expenses.  In order to move health disparities into a stand alone center with viable research and service projects, funds and/or profits from the MSTC are planned for use to initiate new projects and to be used as rider projects to combat health disparities.