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September 2007, Vol 97, No. 9 | American Journal of Public Health 1540
© 2007 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.113985

LETTER

FUNDING CRISIS IN TITLE VII DIVERSITY PROGRAMS

Paula N. O’Neill, EdD and Alvin H. Strelnick, MD

Paula N. O’Neill is with Educational Research and Professional Development and the Hispanic Center of Excellence, University of Texas Dental Branch, Houston. Alvin H. Strelnick is with the Hispanic Center of Excellence Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, and the Department of Family and Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Alvin H. Strelnick, MD, Hispanic Center of Excellence, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Ave, Bronx, NY 10467 (e-mail: hstrelni@montefiore.orgm or cwhittak@montefiore.org).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

Although we largely agree with Mitchell and Lassiter in their December 2006 commentary, "Addressing Health Care Disparities and Increasing Workforce Diversity,"1 they failed to highlight the crisis of the impending elimination of major federal programs for enhancing diversity and assuring adequate numbers of minority health professionals in the future as authorized by Title VII of the Public Health Service Act–Health Careers Opportunity Programs (HCOPs) and minority Centers of Excellence (COEs).

For 30 years, HCOPs have succeeded at recruiting minority and disadvantaged students, enhancing their academic skills, and supporting their preparation, entry, and graduation from schools of dentistry, medicine, pharmacy, public . . . [Full Text]






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