Their ground breaking work on AIDS, women’s health issues and other medical concerns earns Meharry Medical College the honor.
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The medical researchers at Nashville’s Meharry Medical College spend their careers serving the medically underserved. They research the diseases that scourge minority communities, and they work to end health-care disparities in a state that regularly ranks rock-bottom on almost every national health survey.
Tennesseans are more likely to die of cancer, to suffer heart attack and stroke, to be dangerously obese, than residents of almost any other state in the nation. If you’re poor or a minority, or if you live in a remote rural area or a blighted urban neighborhood, the health-care picture is even bleaker.
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