Dr. Roland Thorpe, an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and director of the Program for Research on Men’s Health at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, was appointed this month to the Advisory Committee on Minority Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The Advisory Committee on Minority Health advises the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health on issues affecting the health and wellbeing of minorities. The Office of Minority Health (OMH) at HHS works to improve the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of policies and programs that aim to eliminate health disparities.