Myrlie Evers- Williams Institute

Cause Area

  • Children & Youth
  • Community
  • Education & Literacy
  • Health & Medicine
  • Hunger

Location

350 W. Woodrow WilsonJackson, MS 39213 United States
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Mission Statement

To promote and deliver high-quality, family- and community-based research, education, and community outreach to reduce and eliminate health disparities in Mississippi through: • comprehensively addressing the social determinants of health; • providing family- and community-based programs and services; • rigorous and comprehensive training and mentoring of students, post-doctoral fellows, and early career faculty committed to health disparities research; and • the creation of sustainable and mutually-beneficial community-based partnerships

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Established in 2014, the Myrlie Evers-Williams Institute for the Elimination of Health Disparities serves as the research arm of the Office of Population Health at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Through a family-centered approach, the Evers-Williams Institute seeks to decrease health disparities through, education, research, research training, and community-based programs and services.

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