UAB Symposium Examines Healthcare Needs Of World’s Underserved

By Donna Cope

The first step in providing better healthcare for everyone is identifying the roots of disparate levels of care, leading to a lessened well-being of the underserved in the population.

UAB’s Dr. Mona Fouad and a panel of healthcare experts from England led the charge in investigating Social Determinants from the Global Perspective during the 13th annual Health Disparities Research Symposium on March 19 in Birmingham. The meeting featured an international dialogue about how the U.S. and Great Britain can improve the health incomes of their populations through information-sharing.

“There are lots of similarities between the countries,” said Fouad, director of UAB’s Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center (MHRC). When she visited Staffordshire University in Stoke-on-Trent, Fouad realized there were many similarities in the work done by both universities, especially regarding the quality of healthcare and health disparities.“Working with communities, there are a lot of similarities,” Fouad said. “If you’re under-sourced, the problems are the same. You must learn to listen and learn, then react. Evaluating the work in the community is very challenging – it’s not like being in the lab.”

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