Reducing Racial and Ethnic Gaps in Health Care.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-4 January 2007-YALE UNIVERSITY: Reducing Racial and Ethnic Gaps in Health Care(C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:04012007 New Haven, Conn. - Carol Weitzman, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine, is a recipient of a two-year Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) grant aimed at eliminating racial and ethnic health care disparities in the care and treatment of depression in local communities.

The total $2 million grant, "Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change," was awarded jointly to investigators at 11 of 178 organizations around the country that submitted proposals. "We are pleased to join the Foundation and its Finding Answers program in working to eliminate disparities in the U.S. health care...