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Mercer University Gets N.I.H. Grant, New Designation
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The Mercer University School of Medicine’s Center for Rural Health and Health Disparities was recognized Tuesday by the National Institute of Health as a Center of Excellence.
The only other rural-health focused Center of Excellence is in Montana.
The designation comes with a $700,000 award.
Mercer’s Dr. Jacob Warren said that award will help the center launch a telemedicine program for people with diabetes or hypertension for people who don’t have easy access to a doctor.
"We spent the last five years developing that intervention and conducting a clinical trial to test its effectiveness," Warren said. "We built it as a scalable program that other similar programs can implement wherever they are."
The Centers of Excellence program is designed to further research opportunities that address problems like access inequality, according to the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities.
The School of Medicine said nearly half of its graduates go on to practice in Georgia communities that are rural or medically underserved.
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