The researchers in Meharry's School of Medicine spend their careers serving the medically
underserved. They research the diseases that afflict minority communities, and they
work to end health care disparities that disproportionally affect the nation's poor
and most vulnerable populations.
Minorities are more likely die from heart attacks and strokes, suffer from obesity,
or contract HIV/AIDS. . . and the list goes on.
Environment plays a role in creating some of the disparities, but others are the result
of genetics. Meharry researchers investigate health disparities from all angles, employing
both scientific and community-based research methods.
Meharry has been in the business of eliminating health disparities for more than a
century, and the work continues one cure at a time.
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