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Mothers Leading Science

Mothers Leading Science Program Welcomes Ten Researcher-Moms

CTSI has welcomed the fourth cohort of researcher-moms into Mothers Leading Science, a yearlong career development program for research-intensive faculty in the health sciences who are raising young children.
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Community Health Matters: CUHCC Coordinates Care for Incoming Afghan Refugees

CUHCC has played a key role in providing health care to newly arrived Afghan refugees.
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Talking cervical cancer awareness and health equity with Masonic Cancer Center's Dr. Rahel Ghebre

For Cervical Health Awareness Month this January, Rahel Ghebre, MD, MPH, sat down with us to answer a handful of questions about cervical cancer.
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Global to Local: Empowering Youth to Be Health Leaders

WE-HEAL seeks to understand barriers to women’s health care and the role young people play.
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A Stronger Dose of Community Engagement

While in CTSI's A-PReP program, scholar Tou Thao supported the research of Dr. Robert Straka in order to find unique genetic qualities of Hmong communities to help them receive better healthcare.
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Top 10 Stories of 2022

Here are our top 10 most-read stories from the Office of Academic Clinical Affairs in 2022.
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Research brief: Racial disparities in surgery recommendations for patients with brain tumors

University of Minnesota Medical School researchers found that a patient’s race may influence recommendations for surgical removal of brain tumors.
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Three University-Community Grantee Teams to Address Local Health Equity

The Community Engagement to Advance Research and Community Health (CEARCH) office has named three new collaborative teams as recipients of the Community Partnership Grant.
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Radical Listening to Reduce Stroke Disparities

Black Americans are twice as likely to experience a stroke and face worse outcomes compared to their white peers. But a new project is working to change that.
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Radical listening to reduce stroke disparities

A CTSI-supported study aims to train “stroke champions” who can educate the rest of their community.