Much attention has focused on reaching, educating, and enrolling uninsured people in health coverage programs. Getting people health coverage is one way to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health, but it does not achieve health equity—going beyond eliminating differences among groups of people and attaining the highest level of health for everyone.
Community Science, in addition to our consultation, capacity building, and evaluation services, also works on local issues of national importance. There is an affordable housing crisis in Baltimore City, as in all American cities. Over half (53%) of city renters and 40 percent of homeowners pay more than one-third of their income in housing, putting them at risk for housing instability and even homelessness.
Community Science is working with the Racial Equity Anchor [...]
Community Science has worked closely with Habitat for Humanity [...]
Community Science is proud to present one of our [...]
One of the many defining characteristics of a thriving [...]
Seeing the problem. The juvenile justice system in the [...]
Ricardo Millett, Ph.D., Principal AssociateIn celebrating our 20th anniversary, [...]
Part of Community Science’s mission is to directly give back to the local and national community. In 2016 donations were made to the list of organizations noted below. Charitable giving along with two days of service annually are among the many ways Community Science works "to strengthen the science and practice of community change in order to build healthy, just and equitable communities."
Meet Community Science: Pete York, MSSA
In the 1980s, juvenile justice systems in the United [...]
Truth Initiative (https://truthinitiative.org) aims to reduce tobacco use through [...]
