Organizations and Research Institutions
Clinica Tepati
Clinica Tepati is a non-profit student-run clinic that provides free primary health care services to the uninsured population of Sacramento and the surrounding area. The clinic is associated with UC Davis Medical School and was founded by a group of Chicano/Latino students to address the need for culturally sensitive care for the undeserved Latino population of Sacramento.
LatinoMedical.com
A non-profit organization that focuses on "the betterment of the Latino Community through the field of Medicine." LatinoMedical.com seeks to serve as a central repository for "any and all health and medical information" of relevance to the Latino population.
School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Home to the UNC Center for Health Statistics Research, which since 1999 has been "providing the infrastructure and relevant expertise to address important statistical design and analysis issues tied to research focusing on high-risk populations, especially that which leads to new insights in health promotion and disease preventions."
Hispanic Center of Excellence
The Hispanic Center of Excellence at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine assists the matriculation and graduation of Latino physicians, and encourages them to provide quality medical care to the traditionally underserved Latino communities in Illinois.
Hispanic Health Council
Focuses on improving the health and health care of the Puerto Rican/Latino and other underserved communities in Connecticut.
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