Center for Health Disparities
Welcome to the East Carolina University, Brody School of Medicine Center for Health Disparities (CHD). Our mission is to reduce health disparities of vulnerable populations and disadvantaged communities across the Eastern North Carolina (ENC) region through research, education and training. The Center’s faculty, staff, and community members work to reduce disparities in obesity, diabetes, cancers, and cardiovascular disease.
The term “health disparities” refers to the unequal distribution of health outcomes, illness, disease, suffering and death. ENC consists of the 41 county region east of Interstate 95 (pink areas). Health in ENC is significantly poorer than health in the rest of North Carolina, and health in the ENC-29 counties (dark pink) is poorest of all.
