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Contact OCH:
Carolina Nkouaga
Phone: 1-877-4UNMHSC
(1-877-486-6472)
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Office for Community Health
The UNM Health Sciences Center's Core Strategic Goal, “2020 Vision,” is: “Working with our community partners, UNM Health Sciences Center will help New Mexico make more progress in health than any other state by 2020.” Toward that goal, the
Institute for Community Health Sciences (formerly known as the Office for
Community Health) serves as an umbrella and central point of contact and coordination for programs that engage New Mexico communities in improving health and building the health professions pipeline. Our programs and partners include:
- Centers for Minority Health
- Associate VP for Hispanic Health
- Associate VP for Native American Health
- Associate VP for African American Health
- Health Extension Rural Offices (HEROs)
- EAT - Everyone’s At the Table: Students Working with Communities to Create Sustainable Solutions for Hunger in New Mexico
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Native American Health Policy
- Center for Participatory Research
- Institute for Public Health
- NM Partnership for the Reduction of Health Disparities
- Emerging Infections Program
- Pathways Program
- Center for Telehealth and Cybermedicine Research
- New Mexico Immunization Coalition - SIIP Project
Click for a complete list of our Community Health Partners
The Office for Community Health (OCH), in support of NIH-funded NM Center for Advancement ofResearch, Engagement, and Science on Health Disparities (NM CARES HD) is soliciting applications from all HSC faculty members for small pilot projects that will exemplify one of the aims of Vision 2020 and NM CARES HD. Broadly phrased, those aims include UNM HSC working with communitypartners to help NM make more progress in health and health equity than any other state by theyear 2020, and interventions to reduce health disparities experienced by NM residents. The purpose of this mini-grant RFA is to support small pilot projects related to Vision 2020 and NMCARES HD aims. Due date is 5 pm on 2/29/2012. Please see PDF for details.