• Establishing a longitudinal disease specific clinical practice registry for health services research on disparities.
  
• Pilot test the effectiveness of a practice based intervention to improve hypertension control. Additional studies such as renal outcomes in diabetes, HIV/AIDS, cancer, etc., supported by the practice registry as these disease specific regimens are similarly established with HDC.
  
• Establish and maintain clinical trials repository. Disseminate the results of studies done by MPN Consortium through HDC.
  
• Establish government and industry partnerships for long-term support of the MPN consortium the clinical practice registry and clinical trial data repository.
  
• Develop a clinical research fellowship program in collaboration with other faculty development programs within the center for Health Disparities as well as the MS in clinical research program.

Current research within the center include the following:

1. Lipid Management in High-Risk African American Patients: A house staff model to improve treatment rates.
   
2. Practice Based Heart Failure Program, Congestive Heart Failure Intervention Pilot Study.
   
3. Telehealth Heart Failure Program.
   
4. Interventions to Improve HTN Control Rates in African Americans RFA-HL-04-007 in collaboration with The Medical University of South Carolina;
   
5. Intervention to test the effectiveness of patient-centered lifestyle interventions in enhancing the health of African American Patients with the metabolic syndrome in the context of community-based clinical practices 1U01 HL79214-01 as part of the Emory-MSM collaboration in health disparities.