Our Mission Statement
The mission of MERC is to promote equity in health and healthcare for ethnically and linguistically diverse groups through applied multidisciplinary research and by training the next generation of investigators committed to achieving health equity. We seek to discover the mechanisms that explain health disparities and to develop, evaluate, and implement interventions that prevent and treat disease and advance health equity within healthcare systems and communities.
To achieve our mission, we are committed to:
- Ensuring research questions and results are relevant to the study populations and communities
- Using culturally appropriate and community-engaged methods to recruit study participants
- Collecting disaggregated race/ethnicity data to track, monitor and eliminate disparities
- Advocating for evidence-based policy and structural changes to advance equity in health and healthcare