The UC Davis Center for Reducing Health Disparities (CRHD) takes a multidisciplinary, collaborative approach to the inequities in health access and quality of care. This includes a comprehensive program for research, education and teaching, and community outreach and information dissemination.
The center represents a major commitment to addressing community needs that goes well beyond the traditional service role of an academic medical center. It is a program designed not only to raise awareness and conduct critical research, but also intended to actually assist those communities whose needs have never been addressed and met by the traditional health-care system.
The center’s wide-ranging focus on health disparities includes an emphasis on improving access, detection and treatment of mental health problems within the primary care setting. It will also focus efforts on achieving better understanding into the co-morbidity of chronic illnesses such as diabetes, hypertension, pain conditions, and cancer with depression.
California Reducing Disparities Project (CRDP)
Latino Technical Assitance Provider
UCD Center for Reducing Health Disparities is the Latino Technical Assistance Provider (TAP) to California Reducing Health Disparities Project (CRDP). This project is a statewide prevention and early intervention effort to reduce mental health disparities in underserved communities that include African Americans; Asian and Pacific Islanders; Latinos; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ); and Native American/Alaska Native. UC Davis’ Center for Reducing Health Disparities TAP team works for the Latino population, specifically. Now in Phase II, the focus is on implementing community-defined practices and strategies to reduce mental health disparities.
