Our Objectives

The objectives of the Program to Eliminate Health Disparities are as follows:

Develop relationships with federal, state, and local community based programs and organizations to promote efforts to reduce health inequalities.

Design, implement, and evaluate community-based programs to reduce health disparities, taking into account the relationship between low social capital and poor population health, and the effects of income distribution on health outcomes.

Test, by application, hypotheses concerning the production of health through social, economic, human, cultural, and political capital.

Design an experience-based public health training model that attracts undergraduate and graduate students and other professionals from the fields of science, sociology, economics, and health.

Assist the Division of Public Health Practice in its mission to involve the faculty of HSPH and the rest of the Harvard community in collaborative relationships with surrounding community programs, organizations and neighborhood groups.