{"id":30,"date":"2020-06-22T12:50:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T17:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/minorityhealthinstitute\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2026-03-18T11:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:43:14","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/minorityhealthinstitute\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-245 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/minorityhealthinstitute\/files\/2021\/11\/thumbnail_1900_MinorityHealthInsituteLogo-1-1-300x114.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/minorityhealthinstitute\/files\/2021\/11\/thumbnail_1900_MinorityHealthInsituteLogo-1-1-300x114.png 300w, https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/minorityhealthinstitute\/files\/2021\/11\/thumbnail_1900_MinorityHealthInsituteLogo-1-1-1024x388.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/minorityhealthinstitute\/files\/2021\/11\/thumbnail_1900_MinorityHealthInsituteLogo-1-1.png 1081w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to The Minority Health Institute. Here you will find up-to-date information regarding our current research, community engagement activities and information regarding minority health in West Virginia. Make sure to follow us on social media for real-time updates and announcements.<\/p>\n<p>The mission of the Minority Health Institute is to improve and protect the health and well-being of racial and ethnic minorities through the development of programs, policies and practices to eliminate health disparities.<\/p>\n<p>The Minority Health Institute purpose is to serve as a resource and collaborative partner to community organizations, health care providers, and government agencies in efforts to decrease morbidity and mortality in minority populations.<\/p>\n<p>The Minority Health Institute coordinates statewide efforts to reduce health inequity for vulnerable populations as defined by race\/ethnicity, social-economic status, geography, age, disability status and among other populations identified to be at risk for health disparities.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>National Minority Health Month<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-517\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/minorityhealthinstitute\/files\/2026\/03\/1900_NationalMinorityHealthMonth_Flyer-1-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/minorityhealthinstitute\/files\/2026\/03\/1900_NationalMinorityHealthMonth_Flyer-1-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/minorityhealthinstitute\/files\/2026\/03\/1900_NationalMinorityHealthMonth_Flyer-1.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to The Minority Health Institute. Here you will find up-to-date information regarding our current research, community engagement activities and information regarding minority health in West Virginia. Make sure to follow us on social media for real-time updates and announcements. The mission of the Minority Health Institute is to improve and protect the health and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":812,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/minorityhealthinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/minorityhealthinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/minorityhealthinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/minorityhealthinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/812"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/minorityhealthinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/minorityhealthinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/minorityhealthinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/minorityhealthinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}