President Barack Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative has resulted in a five-year NIH grant award of $11.5 million to the Stanford Precision Health for Ethnic and Racial Equity (SPHERE) Center to fund health interventions for disadvantaged minority and ethnic groups.
The predominant focus of this center is to target disease among individuals of lower socioeconomic status and racial/ethnic minority. Although the center and its researchers have many goals for their constituents, the initial focus will be to tackle rheumatoid arthritis, obesity, and cancer in different ethnic groups that are affected by these diseases at disproportionate rates.
The SPHERE center will be working in concert with various different organizations around the country to ensure that it serves a population that targets various different racial, ethnic, and low-income communities.
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