- By FYH News Team
There have long been significant differences in health across race, income, education and geographic location. In Alabama and in the Deep South, the impact of these differences is seen everywhere, from the state’s largest cities to its most rural areas.
For 20 years, the University of Alabama at Birmingham Minority Health & Health Disparities Research Center has taken a comprehensive, science-first approach to improve the health of people in historically under-resourced areas — with efforts in research, training and community engagement.
The inspiration came on a bus ride through the Mississippi Delta.
“We passed by these tiny houses, and in front of one were maybe eight or nine children,” said Mona Fouad, M.D., director of the Minority Health & Health Disparities Research Center. “I thought, if we tell a woman living there to get a mammogram, how is she even going to get there? What other health issues does she face? What about her children? We can’t just tell her to get a mammogram and ignore everything else.”
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