Drew/Meharry/Morehouse Consortium Cancer Center: an approach to targeted research in minority institutions.
This article describes the process by which three private minority medical schools planned and developed a consortium cancer research center focusing on the prevention of cancer in the African-American population. Several lessons were learned that may have relevance as minority schools search for ways to improve the health status of blacks.
Haynes
M A
MA
Drew/Meharry/Morehouse Consortium Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA.
Bernard
L J
LJ
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