(Tackling Health Disparities in Imperial County)...$5 million has been awarded to develop a Clinical Research Network.

San Diego State Unbiversity, SDSU Imperial Valley and El Centro Regional Medical center recieved the cooperative agreement award from an arm of the National Insitutes Of Health to tackle health inequities in the region. Over five years, the funds will help establish the Imperial County Research Network, a partnership between SDSU Health Link Center, SDSU Imperial Valley Rise Center and ECRMC. SDSU professor of public health Guadalupe X. Ayala, SDSU assistant professor and associate director of nursing Helina Hoyt and chief clinical officer of ECRMC Suzanne Martinez are the principal investigators. They will develop an infrastructure of personnel, policies and procedures to build science informed clinical research capacity at ECRMC.