Advancing chronic disease
Health disparities Research:the RCMI at UH
Transforming Lives Together.
Let’s build a healthier tomorrow
Growing the next generation of research leaders
We invest early and often in the people who will carry chronic disease research forward — through funding, mentorship, and structured training pathways.
Investigator Development
Individualized pathways that move early-stage researchers from idea to independent funding.
Pilot Awards
Seed funding for promising, high-risk / high-reward chronic disease research.
Mentoring
Paired mentorship with senior faculty across biostatistics, design, and dissemination.
Training
Workshops and cohort programs covering methods, grant writing, and community-engaged research.
Research capacity that scales with ambition
Shared infrastructure — statistical, technical, and navigational — so investigators spend less time re-building the basics and more time discovering.
Research Capacity
Institutional infrastructure that supports rigorous, reproducible science at every stage.
Biostatistics
Consultation on study design, analysis plans, and power calculations.
Data Science
Support for data management, integration, and advanced analytics.
Research Resources
Shared tools, templates, and navigation support across the research lifecycle.
Community at the center, not the edge
Research is designed with communities, not delivered to them. Our engagement model shares power over priorities and process.
Community Engagement
Ongoing, two-way relationships between researchers and community organizations.
Community Advisory Board
Community leaders shape priorities, review protocols, and guide dissemination.
Value-Based Community Engagement
A framework that measures and reinforces mutual value across every partnership.
Community Partnerships
A growing network of trusted organizations across Houston’s diverse communities.
From question to real-world impact, faster
Core services and translational infrastructure exist to remove friction between a good idea and a funded, executed study.
Research Projects
An active portfolio spanning prevention, treatment, and implementation science.
Core Services
Shared cores in biostatistics, community engagement, and administration.
Innovation
New methods and technologies piloted to strengthen chronic disease research.
Translational Science
Moving discoveries from bench and community into practice and policy.
We measure what matters, in public
Impact isn’t a year-end summary — it’s a living, monthly record of progress toward better chronic disease outcomes.
Impact Stories
Real accounts of problems studied, lessons learned, and what’s next.
Publications
Findings organized by theme, not by committee.
Outcomes Dashboard
Monthly-updated metrics on investigators, funding, and communities served.
Chronic Disease Priorities
Priorities set together with the communities most affected.