Research
The National Center for Primary Care at Morehouse School of Medicine is the only Congressionally designated national center for the study and support of primary
health care. The mission of the National Center for Primary Care is to promote excellence in community oriented primary health care and optimal health outcomes
for all Americans, with a special emphasis on eliminating health disparities and on serving the underserved.
Activities of the National Center include primary care training programs, minority faculty development in primary care disciplines, health policy analysis, practice-based research, and research on health access and health outcomes for underserved populations.Each community health center is governed by a Community Board of which 51% are patients if the center. All research is approved by the community health center board before implementation.
Research in SERCN. SERCN has progressed in its capabilities from doing simple survey-based projects to doing interventional studies and group-randomized controlled trials in a region-wide 8-state study. Research in the SERCN is based on the belief that to eliminate disparities in health status, we must demonstrate that process improvement leads to clinical outcomes improvement, in turn impacting the disparity gap across an entire community.
