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Center to develop Hispanic, Native-American health policy leaders
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and University of New Mexico will open a center for health policy at the university by Fall 2007 to increase the number of Hispanic and Native American scholars engaged in the health care debate. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy will focus on recruiting minorities into social sciences doctoral programs and retaining Hispanic and Native American students through financial, social and cultural support. It also will conduct independent research on health care access, cost and quality, and offer interdisciplinary research workshops on specialized health topics. The center expects to train roughly 100 students within five years. More than 30% of UNM's 32,300 students are Hispanic and 12% are Native American.