The Consortium of African American Public Health Programs (CAAPHP) is a coalition of public health programs/schools established and operating at eight of the nation’s leading Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). These eight programs represent all such programs currently operating at HBCUs. The Consortium was formed in the fall of 1999 and funded in 2001 through a grant from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Office of Minority Health of the Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA).
The Consortium's express purpose is to facilitate its members in applied research, policy analysis and interventions to assist the United States in meeting the goals and objectives outlined in Healthy People 2010. The CAAPHP mission directly reflects the mandate to create evidence-based programs of intervention that ensure that the United States can reduce gaps in health status and medical outcomes among its citizens, in an effort to create and sustain a healthy workforce over future decades.
CAAPHP's eight member institutions and their public health programs/schools prepare emerging public health professionals to deal with the socio-economic disparities which disproportionately affect our communities. The Consortium offers portals through which African Americans can take charge of and begin to change the direction of those health and socio-economic conditions that diminish the quality and shorten the lifespan of people and communities of color. Some of our member institutions are located in the communities they serve and thus see it as their mission to address issues of poverty, hunger, homelessness, HIV/AIDS, mental illness, substance abuse and violence. CAAPHP is a critical platform in the arena of health disparities research for the design and successful implementation of prevention and intervention programs.
The Consortium has been actively engaged in strengthening the faculty and curricula of its member organizations to achieve and sustain accreditation of all member programs of public health. CAAPHP provides speakers for national forums on health disparities and publishes significant research on issues such as reducing health disparities, Complementary and Alternative Medicine and other nontraditional methods of intervention and care delivery.
Morgan State University, first as an accredited public health program, and now as one of the first Schools of Public Health at a HBCU, served as the Consortium’s coordinating agency from 2001 until early 2006. Morehouse School of Medicine is now the coordinating site and will lead CAAPHP forward in its roles of advocacy, research, public awareness, teaching, and increasing public awareness of communities in need.
The Consortium's express purpose is to facilitate its members in applied research, policy analysis and interventions to assist the United States in meeting the goals and objectives outlined in Healthy People 2010. The CAAPHP mission directly reflects the mandate to create evidence-based programs of intervention that ensure that the United States can reduce gaps in health status and medical outcomes among its citizens, in an effort to create and sustain a healthy workforce over future decades.
CAAPHP's eight member institutions and their public health programs/schools prepare emerging public health professionals to deal with the socio-economic disparities which disproportionately affect our communities. The Consortium offers portals through which African Americans can take charge of and begin to change the direction of those health and socio-economic conditions that diminish the quality and shorten the lifespan of people and communities of color. Some of our member institutions are located in the communities they serve and thus see it as their mission to address issues of poverty, hunger, homelessness, HIV/AIDS, mental illness, substance abuse and violence. CAAPHP is a critical platform in the arena of health disparities research for the design and successful implementation of prevention and intervention programs.
The Consortium has been actively engaged in strengthening the faculty and curricula of its member organizations to achieve and sustain accreditation of all member programs of public health. CAAPHP provides speakers for national forums on health disparities and publishes significant research on issues such as reducing health disparities, Complementary and Alternative Medicine and other nontraditional methods of intervention and care delivery.
Morgan State University, first as an accredited public health program, and now as one of the first Schools of Public Health at a HBCU, served as the Consortium’s coordinating agency from 2001 until early 2006. Morehouse School of Medicine is now the coordinating site and will lead CAAPHP forward in its roles of advocacy, research, public awareness, teaching, and increasing public awareness of communities in need.
THE CONSORTIUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN
PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAMS
PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAMS
HISTORY AND BACKGROUND