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Welcome
Welcome to the website for Cells to Society (C2S): The Center on Social Disparities and Health at the Institute for Policy Research. Our mission is: (1) To bring together the social, life, and biomedical sciences to understand the origins, consequences, and policy solutions for contemporary health inequalities in the United States; and (2) to examine how broad social, race/ethnic and economic disparities"get under the skin" and affect human development and physical health.
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IPR Fellow Part of Gates Foundation College Initiative
IPR Faculty Fellow and C2S Director Lindsay Chase-Lansdale is one of the researchers working on an important new $69 million college completion initiative led by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Palloni Receives Robert Wood Johnson Award
IPR/C2S social demographer Alberto Palloni has received the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Investigator Award in Health Policy Research.
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Doctoral Student, Chelsea McKinney, Receives Award
Chelsea McKinney was awarded a three-year research supplement to promote diversity in health-related research from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development.
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Summer Biomarker Institute – June 8-10, 2009 |
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IPR/C2S postdoctoral fellow investigates interracial interactions
In a country that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder referred to as “a nation of cowards” when discussing race, how can we work to make interracial contact lead to positive outcomes for all involved? Research by IPR/C2S postdoctoral fellow Sophie Trawalter might help to provide answers to such discussions.
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C2S is supported in part by a grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (5R21HD53946-3)
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