UAB Symposium Tackles Strategies To Improve Minority Health

By Donna Cope

Being healthy means a better life, helping you and your family, and – in the long-term – Alabama and the nation.

On May 3, about 210 doctors, scientists, academic investigators, students and community partners met at UAB’s Health Disparities Research Symposium to discuss factors in providing better health. They took an in-depth look at the role of social determinants, while discussing the complex factors that affect the health of communities and how to improve the nation’s health.

Eliminating health disparities makes the entire population healthier, said Dr. Mona Fouad, director of UAB’s Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center (MHRC). Serving as a coordinating facility, the MHRC brings together different academic disciplines while developing partnerships with communities to address health disparities together.“We want to bring people together to address health disparity issues, and unfortunately, it’s very complex,” Fouad said. “There’s not one discipline in medicine for behavioral and psychology that can help that.”

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