Mary Amelia Center for Women's Health Equity Research (MAC)
Our Mission
Equity
At the Mary Amelia Center for Women's Health Equity Research (MAC), we believe that opportunities for health begin where people are born, grow, learn, work, and play and are shaped by the policies and systems that form the foundation of our society. We envision a world where all people are afforded equal opportunity to achieve their full potential for a happy and healthy life.
We take an innovative, multi-level approach to our mission of conducting interdisciplinary research that identifies and disrupts barriers to knowledge, opportunity, and health for women and their communities while addressing inequities in health across the lifespan.
As a center that values being responsive to the community, we recognize the importance of translating our research into action through training and advocacy. We strive to promote our vision of equitable health and well-being for women and their communities. Through broad dissemination of our findings, we hope to initiate, facilitate, and advance progress on efforts to improve population health for women, as individuals with reproductive rights, parents with children and families, and community members.
We are enthusiastic about the continuing and planned activities and growth, and are indebted to The Frost Foundation, Ltd., W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The National Institutes of Health, The Centers for Disease Control, and our federal sponsors for their support and guidance.
20+ years of community health
The Mary Amelia Center for Women's Health Equity Research was established in 2003 as part of the Tulane-Xavier Center of Excellence in Women's Health in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana.
