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Deaf Organizations of the Philadelphia Area Summit (Philadelphia, Dec. 6, 2023)
DHCC welcomes all organizations that support Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing and DeafBlind community members from all around Philadelphia to join us for this event. To bring together our people and minds so that we can share our abilities and resources to strengthen our impact on the communities we serve. Click the link below for more details!
The Deaf Organizations of Philadelphia-Area Summit
NIH designates people with disabilities as a population with health disparities
Designation, new research program and update to NIH mission are actions to ensure inclusion of people with disabilities.
Today, Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, M.D., director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), designated people with disabilities as a population with health disparities for research supported by the National Institutes of Health. The decision was made in consultation with Robert Otto Valdez, Ph.D., the director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, after careful consideration of a report delivered by an NIMHD advisory council, input from the disability community and a review of the science and evidence. A report issued in December 2022 by the Advisory Committee to the (NIH) Director (ACD), informed by the work of the Subgroup on Individuals with Disabilities, explored similar issues faced by people with disabilities. The designation is one of several steps NIH is taking to address health disparities faced by people with disabilities and ensure their representation in NIH research.
“This designation recognizes the importance and need for research advances to improve our understanding of the complexities leading to disparate health outcomes and multilevel interventions,” said Dr. Pérez-Stable. “Toward this effort, NIMHD and other NIH institutes launched a new research program to better understand the health disparities faced by people with disabilities who are also part of other populations designated as having health disparities.”