Center for Cross-Cultural Health
The mission of the Center for Cross Cultural Health is to
integrate the role of culture in improving health.
The Center’s vision is to ensure that diverse populations receive
culturally competent and sensitive health and human service. In order to
achieve this goal, the Center is actively involved in the education and training
of health and human service providers and organizations in the State of
Minnesota and beyond. The Center is also a research and information resource.
Cross Cultural Health Care Program
Since 1992, the CCHCP has been addressing broad cultural issues that impact the health of
individuals and families in ethnic minority communities in Seattle and nationwide. Through a
combination of cultural competency trainings, interpreter trainings, research projects, community
coalition building, and other services, the CCHCP serves as a bridge between communities and
health care institutions to ensure full access to quality health care that is culturally and linguistically
appropriate.
Diversity Rx
Diversity Rx promotes language and cultural competence to improve the quality of health care for
minority, immigrant, and ethnically diverse communities.
EthnicMajority.com: Healthcare for Arican, Latino, and Asian Americans
The web site is funded by Diverse Strategies, a business and management consulting firm in
Oakland, California.
KFF: Minority Health
The Kaiser Family Foundation's minority section seeks to develop more effective solutions to the
problems contributing to the poorer health access and outcomes experienced by many racial and
ethnic minority Americans.
Knowledge Path: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health (December 2002)
This Web site offers a selection of current, high-quality resources and information tools on racial
and ethnic disparities in health. It is aimed at policymakers, health professionals, and researchers
who are interested in tracking timely information on this topic. This knowledge path will be updated
annually.
Joint Institute for Political and Economic Studies
The Joint Center informs and illuminates the nation's major public policy debates through research,
analysis, and information dissemination in order to: improve the socioeconomic status of black
Americans and other minorities; expand their effective participation in the political and public policy
arenas; and promote communications and relationships across racial and ethnic lines to strengthen
the nation's pluralistic society.
Joint Institute for Political and Economic Studies
The Joint Center informs and illuminates the nation's major public policy debates through research,
analysis, and information dissemination in order to: improve the socioeconomic status of black
Americans and other minorities; expand their effective participation in the political and public policy
arenas; and promote communications and relationships across racial and ethnic lines to strengthen
the nation's pluralistic society.
MinorityNurse.com
The web siet provides "resources and information pertaining to education, career development and
minority health for the growing population of minority nurses in America."
National Alliance For Hispanic Health
National Asian Women's Health Organization
NAWHO was founded in 1993 to achieve health equity for Asian Americans. NAWHO's goals are to
raise awareness about the health needs of Asian Americans through research and education; to
support Asian Americans as decision-makers through leadership development and advocacy;
and to strengthen systems serving Asian Americans through partnerships and capacity building
Racial Disparities in Health
Web site by the National Conference of Sate Legislatures
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Disparities page
Find funding opportunities, research materials, articles, and other resources strategically created to
address racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare.
