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Welcome to the Center for Health Equity Research (HER)

Introduction

The Center for Health Equity Research (HER) strives to reduce the health disparity gap by improving the chronic disease self-management capacities of individuals, families, and communities. The Center for HER aims to meet the unmet healthcare needs of disadvantaged populations by promoting the development of knowledge, providing infrastructure dedicated to research, establishing synergy to inspire nurse scientists, and relying on collaboration to formulate cost-effective self-management interventions to improve health outcomes and overall well-being for people with chronic conditions.

Description

The Center for HER serves as a catalyst to encourage interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary networking between the School of Nursing and a variety of other disciplines across UT Austin and community agencies to develop innovative and effective approaches to build the science of self-management for chronic conditions. The goal of self-management is to improve health and quality of life when reducing health care utilization for preventable events.

HER Mission

The HER’s mission is to establish an innovative environment that advocates for collaborative nursing research and execute high-impact projects in self-management science. HER also strives to initiate an infrastructure dedicated to transdisciplinary collaborative research as well as provide expert and knowledgeable mentoring in a wide range of approaches such as bio-behavior, evolving technology, business principles, and marketing methods.

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HER History

The National Institutes of Health, National Institute for Nursing Research funded the Center for HER. Under Dr. Miyong Kim’s leadership, the Center’s multidisciplinary research team collaborated on several research, training, and policy initiatives formulated to significantly reduce cardiovascular health disparities, including projects focused on improving cardiovascular health in vulnerable populations.

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The Center for HER is composed of four cores: