Welcome to CUMHR
Our Mission
The Center for Urban Mental Health Research
functions to assist and promote research in mental health issues. In addition
to providing assistance with design and analysis of research, the Center also
assists with other aspects of on-going research. The Center also has the
additional mission of education about research and research ethics. The Institutional Review Board is an arm of the
Center. Under new NIH guidelines, all personnel involved in working with
humans subjects in any kind of research project must have taken a course in
the guidelines for research with human participants. NIH will no longer fund
projects without assurance of such training. Ultimately, HHS will require a more intensive
course of ethical issues in research of all personnel both academic and
administrative.
Who Are We?
The staff of the Center is made up of faculty,
administrators, and students at CSU who are involved in mental health
research. Currently the director is Dr. Ellen F. Rosen. Ms. Josie McDonald is the
Coordinator. The Secretary is
Ms. Bernadette Chatman. Senior fellows are Dr. Elnora D.
Daniel, Dr. Linda C. Petty, Dr. Esther Jenkins, and Dr. Joseph
Balogun. The central themes
of the research projects undertaken by the Center are race, ethnicity,
socioeconomic status and urban living with special emphasis on the south side
of Chicago.
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