Overview: Research at the Institute for Family Health

The Institute engages in clinical and health services research in support of its core mission to provide access to superior primary care, especially to those who are medically underserved.  Our research enables us to continually improve the care we offer and to contribute to the advancement of primary care knowledge and practices.  While the Institute engages in a wide variety of research projects, we have focused efforts in four research areas: 

● racial and ethnic health disparities;  
● health information technology;
● mental health; and
● women’s health.
 

The Institute’s practice sites, providers, and organizational leaders comprise a primary care-based research network, or PBRN, which is registered with the PBRN Resource Center sponsored by the Federal Agency for Health Care Quality and Research.  The Institute fosters and supports research that is initiated by individual providers, including family practice residents, as well as broader, coordinated projects implemented across all practice sites.   The Institute’s Research Committee, which meets the first Monday of every month, provides research guidance and oversight.   Click here for a listing of current research projects.

To support the practice of sound, ethical research, the Institute operates an Institutional Review Board, or IRB.  The IRB reviews all of the Institute’s proposed research projects involving human subjects to ensure the protection of subjects and to safeguard their rights.  Click here for more information about the Institute’s IRB, including access to guidelines and forms.

The research conducted by the Institute’s staff and residency faculty has resulted in numerous publications in a variety of medical journals.  Institute staff have also published health policy articles, book chapters, commentaries, and letters to the editor on issues related to primary care and care for the underserved. Click here for a listing of Institute publications.

For more information about research at the Institute for Urban Family Health, please contact Diane Hauser at (212) 633-0800 x1290 or dhauser@institute2000.org.