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Research Core Group
Principal Investigator: Stephen Kulis, Ph.D., School of Social and Family Dynamics
Research Core Mission
The Research Core’s mission is to address knowledge gaps on the role of cultural processes and other fundamental causes of disease in the creation, reduction and elimination of health disparities in mental health, HIV/AIDS and substance abuse, in the US-Mexico border region and in Maricopa County, through sustained, coordinated, programmatic, and thematically linked research that concentrates interdisciplinary expertise and addresses the needs of the local community. The Core focuses on advancing knowledge on health disparities by enhancing the Center’s conceptual and methodological expertise to conduct the highest quality scientific research to reduce health disparities through culturally appropriate prevention and treatment of mental health, HIV/AIDS and substance abuse.
Research Core Aims
Connecting Culture and Health
- To identify cultural strengths and processes that produce healthy outcomes
- To explore how ethnic minority group values and norms promote behaviors that protect health
- To study whether and how ethnic/racial discrimination and acculturation stress compromise health
- To develop and test culturally appropriate interventions for ethnic minority populations
