Congratulations to Dr. Sheiphali Gandhi
for receiving the 2024 Irene Perstein Award in recognition of her research on silicosis and its prevalence in vulnerable workers in CA.
"Novel Strategies to Promote Alignment between Healthcare and Social Care Systems By Addressing the Social Drivers of Health"
A recent publication by Dr. Elizabeth Dzeng in Critical Care Clinics.
Congratulations to Dr. Veronica Yank
for her new NIA funded grant titled "Improving Incontinence Support for Family Caregivers and Persons Living with Dementia".
Congratulations to Dr. Alison Huang
for her new R01 grant from the NCCIH and the ORWH titled "A Randomized Trial of a Remotely Delivered Group Pelvic Yoga Program for Women with Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome.
Congratulations to Dr. Grace Lin
for her new UCSF Resource Allocation Program (RAP) grant titled "Towards Personalized Cancer Screening Recommendations in Older Adults".
Dr. Leah Karliner featured in language access podcast
Listen to her in "Part 3: Strategy, Policy, and Resources", part of a three-part series from the Western North Carolina Health Policy Initiative

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