The American Health Research Institute (AHRI), a public health research entity exists to narrow health disparities in the United States. The institute’s focus is on geo-epidemiologic and racial/ethnic mapping of disease, disabilities, injuries and health-related events, and the utilization of valid and reliable data from such mappings for geographic and racial-specific intervention development and implementation. These mappings are fundamental to the elimination of racial/ethnic variability in mortality outcomes in the pluralistic and multiracial US population. The basis of health disparities elimination revolves around a valid model for health disparities pathogenesis, implying the factors that influence or affect these health disparities—-sex, socioeconomic factors, access and utilization of care, clinico-pathologic covariates, demographics, environment, genetics, and genetic-environment interaction, etc. With the overall purpose of eliminating health disparities, AHRI utilizes signal amplification and risk modeling with respect to spatial, time-spatial, and race stratification in its mappings. Below are the specific research focuses of AHRI:

• Geo-epidemiologic mapping of childhood cancer
• Geo-epidemiologic mapping of pediatric blunt trauma
• Racial/ethnic mapping of hypertension
• Racial/ethnic mapping of diabetes mellitus
• Geo-epidemiologic mapping of prostate cancer using SEER-Medicare linked data
• Pediatric Brain/CNS tumor mapping using SEER data
• Racial mapping of colorectal cancer screening using National Interview Survey Data
• Spatial analysis of pediatric thyroid cancer using SEER data
• Health Disparities mapping in major adult malignancies
• Geo-epidemiologic mapping of pediatric disabilities
• Time-spatial and spatial mapping of pediatric injuries
• Place and disease epidemiologic modeling
• Geo-epidemiologic mapping of cancer in Texas using State Cancer Registry
• Signal amplification and risk stratification by geography and race/ethnicity
• Causal Inference in disease, disabilities and injuries mapping
• Health policy development and implementation by region