The PATIENTS Program within the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy (UMSOP) received nearly $10 million in federal funding to work in partnership — both with other schools at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) including the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the University of Maryland School of Social Work, as well as external community organizations — to improve health equity in Baltimore and beyond.
Through the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Common Fund Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society (ComPASS) program, UMSOP’s PATIENTS Program has been awarded $9.4 million to serve as a Health Equity Research Hub.
The hub, using the extensive expertise at and resources from UMB, will provide technical assistance and scientific support to several NIH-funded Community-Led, Health Equity Structural Interventions (CHESIs) nationwide. The grant is led by C. Daniel Mullins, PhD, executive director of the PATIENTS Program and a professor of practice, sciences, and health outcomes research at UMSOP.
Longtime PATIENTS Program community partner and chair of the PATIENTS Program steering committee, Rev. Franklin Lance, DMin, senior pastor at Mount Lebanon Baptist Church, serves as the community co-lead for the award.
To learn more, go to https://www.pharmacy.umaryland.edu/programs/the-patients-program/.
Photo: C. Daniel Mullins and Rev. Franklin Lance