The mission of the Center on Social Disparities in Health is to address the need for more reliable and timely information, as well as better use of existing information, to guide efforts to reduce social disparities in health in the United States and other countries. Since its inception in 2002, the Center has focused on three main objectives: 

• conducting policy-relevant research and monitoring of social disparities in health, primarily in maternal and infant health, in collaboration with local, state, national, and international health agencies;
• providing training and consultation in sound methods for studying social disparities in health; and
• widely disseminating our own and related work to audiences including researchers, public health practitioners, policy-makers and the public. 

These objectives have shaped a process of developing innovative descriptive, explanatory and methodologic research and ongoing monitoring of socioeconomic, racial/ethnic and other social disparities in health and health care. By bringing together a critical mass of multi-disciplinary expertise and effectively integrating research and monitoring with training and dissemination, the Center aims to continue providing policy-relevant knowledge to guide the reduction of health disparities in the United States and globally.

UPCOMING HEALTH DISPARITIES SEMINARS

Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Recommendations of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America (RWJF CBHA)
Paula Braveman, MD, MPH and Susan Egerter, PhD
Co-Directors, Center on Social Disparities in Health and
Co-Directors of Research for the RWJF CBHA
UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine
12:00-1:30 PM, Laurel Heights, Room 474
April 29, 2009 CSDH Presentation

Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Exploring Social Determinants of Costa Rica's Exceptional Longevity
William H. Dow, PhD
Associate Professor, Health Economics
School of Public Health
UC Berkeley
12:00-1:30 pm, Laurel Heights, Room 474

Monday, July 13, 2009
Perinatal Outcomes Among Asian, Native Hawaiian, and other Pacific Islanders for Single and Multiple-Race Mothers: California and Hawaii, 2003-2005
Ashley Schempf, PhD
AcademyHealth Fellow, National Center for Health Statistics
12:00-1:30 pm, Laurel Heights, Room 376

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