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Contact: Russ Hudson,
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -
Health Educator Patricia Harvard-Hinchberger on HACU Group
Goal is to improve health care for minorities, with a focus
on Hispanics
Carson, CA - A new group of higher-education professionals selected
nationwide to represent the Hispanic Association of Colleges
and Universities
(HACU) is focusing on efforts to improve the health care
of America’s
fast-growing Hispanic population. California State University,
Dominguez Hills’ assistant professor Patricia
Harvard-Hinchberger,
School of Nursing, is playing a role.
Harvard-Hinchberger is among the 20 members of the team
of professors, instructors, administrators and minority
health-care
grant specialists.
Dominguez Hills, a HACU member, is considered among the
country’s
Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) because of the proportion
of Hispanic students attending the university and receiving
degrees.
The program is in its seventh year. It is an effort by the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services and HACU and is funded
by the National Center on Minority and Health Disparities. Professional
training and development is the primary purpose of the program.
It is designed to strengthen the capacity of colleges and universities
to secure, and manage, more federal grants and other funding opportunities
for biomedical and health-services research that targets minority
health-care needs.
“What we’re finding, most of us, in the smaller colleges
and universities, is that we haven’t the same types of track
records that universities that are focused toward research have,” says
Harvard-Hinchberger. “We’re primarily focused on teaching
here, that is our forte. They’re looking at organizations,
such as ours, that have faculty who want projects related to research
that includes Hispanics. What I’m working on is related to
osteoporosis (a decrease in bone mass, leaving the bones weaker),
specifically related to Latinas and African Americans. The first
portion of the research was done on this campus, in which I surveyed
college women to find what their perception was of osteoporosis.
I think that was one of the reasons I was selected.”
For
more details on Harvard-Hinchberger’s role, her research
and HACU’s goals in the project, go to http://www.csudh.edu/univadv/dateline/archives/20050725/facstaffnews/patriciahhinchberger.htm
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