LOCATION: Rensselaer, NY, U.S.A.

ORGANIZATION TYPE: Education

FOCUS AREA: Children / Families, Education, Environment / Land Use, Food security / Nutrition, Health Care Delivery, Housing / Neighborhoods, Immigration, Income & Wealth, International, Jobs & Work, Law, Media / Journalism, Mental health / Psychology, Public Health, Public Policy, Race / Ethnicity, Social Inclusion, Transportation

HEALTH EQUITY INITIATIVES: We educate the future public health workforce to understand public health from a broad ecological perspective that encompasses all of the issues listed above. We conduct research into a wide array of public health issues, taking a similar perspective. In partnership with other schools at the University at Albany, we co-sponsor the Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities -- a focal point for research, teaching and service in this area.