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Unconscious bias, also called implicit bias, affects health care providers every day, especially when they are stressed or tired. Swift and automatic, it can reduce[...]

Reducing liver disease in immigrant African communities With funding from the Mayo Clinic Office of Health Disparities Research (OHDR), a team led by Lewis Roberts,[...]

Mayo Clinic's Office of Health Disparities Research (OHDR) provides funding and support for health disparities research to understand and fulfill the unmet needs of patients.[...]

A spate of Mayo Clinic articles, events and activities have recently featured, or soon will be featuring, OHDR or health disparities in research and practice:[...]

Matt Bondaryk, a health services analyst at Mayo Clinic, recently received the Mayo Clinic Community Caring Award. This award is given to employees for outstanding[...]

Location Rochester, Minnesota Contact roberts.lewis@mayo.edu Research Summary Liver cancer, hepatitis, Somali, immigrant African, biliary cancer, pancreatic cancer, community-based participatory research The major research goal for[...]

The first annual Arizona Health Equity Conference was held on October 30, 2014, in Glendale, Arizona. The conference brought together 275 professionals from across the[...]

The Mayo Clinic Office of Health Disparities Research (OHDR) is pleased to announce funding awards for five pilot projects in 2015 that will target health[...]

At the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, hundreds of researchers dedicate their professional lives to reducing the burden of cancer. Each one has a unique story.[...]

African American men and women have the highest incidence and death rates for colorectal cancer, the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the United[...]