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Translating Discovery into
BASIC/BIOMEDICAL
SCIENCE
Health Equity T 1
HEALTH CLINICAL
POLICY RESEARCH
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MSM’s research enterprise continued to thrive in FY16 as significant strides were made in our T X
four core research areas: cancer, cardiovascular disease, neurological disease, and infectious
diseases. We concentrate our efforts in these areas as we know these diseases have the highest
rates of disparity and by making impact in these areas, we can indeed be the catalyst for a sea COMMUNITY HEALTH
ENGAGED
change in healthy outcomes across the board. In FY16, Morehouse School of Medicine secured RESEARCH SCIENCE
RESEARCH
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nearly $45 million in grant funding for new and renewed research projects.
FY16 Highlights:
l The Neuroscience Institute implemented a BS/MS in Neuroscience degree program in
collaboration the Atlanta University Center colleges. There are eight students enrolled in the T – The Translation of Science
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B.S. program. Of these, four were selected to enter the M.S. program.
The translation of scientific discovery into meaningful
l The Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) initiative, a $2.9 million gains can be sluggish, often uncertain or uneven across
cooperative agreement with the CDC, was selected as a model program by the CDC during populations and not optimally facilitated by traditional
the annual Grantees’ Technical Assistance meeting. siloed categories along the translational (T )
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continuum. At Morehouse School of Medicine, we know
l The Office of Community Engagement was established to connect the dots among all of that more can be done and in FY16, we further expanded
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MSM’s enterprises creating a central space through which we engage our communities, the concept of MSM T and began assessing the MSM
communicate related messages, facilitate partnerships that move the needle in research portfolio as well as the national landscape to
advancing health equity. identify projects that move the needle on improving
health.
l The Center of Excellence on Health Disparities (CEHD) facilitated the development of the
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Bridges to Health Equity course funded by a supplemental grant award from the National MSM T is an approach and philosophy, rather than a
Institute on Minority Health & Health Disparities (NIMHD). The health equity course translational research phase. It represents the infinite
is intended to build on Morehouse School of Medicine’s students’ broad base of knowledge stages of impact achieved through evidenced-based
of health disparities in the United States with a focus on race/ethnicity, socioeconomic discoveries and partnerships that advance the science
status, gender, and environment. and practice of improving health outcomes of
underserved communities or populations carrying the
l MSM’s research enterprise welcomed two acclaimed new hires: NIH veteran, burden of a given health disparity. In this regard, the
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Sheila McClure, Ph.D., Sr. Associate Dean for Research and Development and outcome of T is health equity, the cornerstone of
Hadiyah-Nicole Green, Ph.D., Asst. Professor, Physiology who was awarded a $1.1 million Morehouse School of Medicine’s sea changing vision.
grant from the VA Office of Research and Development to continue work on patent-pending
technologies to detect and induce tumor regression. T trademark application filed April 30, 2015 (File serial
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No. 86/615,129)