Dr. Marlynn May is the inaugural recipient of the Wimberly Chair in Health Services Research, at St. Luke’s Episcopal Health Charities (SLEHC), with a focus on Community-Based Research. The Wimberly Chair, endowed through a $1 million gift in honor of The Rt. Rev. Don A. Wimberly, eighth Bishop of the 57-county Episcopal Diocese of Texas, was created to sustain the work of an established scholar with a demonstrated interest in community-based research and underserved communities, as evidenced by practice, teaching, research, and publications.
The SLEHC was created in 1997 as a component of the St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System located in Houston. It is a public, non-operating charity that has engaged in grant-making and community-based research since its inception. It has awarded 1, 294 grants totaling more than $74 million to nonprofit service organizations. Its grant-making is directed toward disease prevention and health promotion among the underserved.
Marlynn’s work first came to the attention of SLEHC through a CBPR Project he created nearly three years ago in partnership with the Paso del Norte Health Foundation in El Paso. Representatives of SLEHC visited the El Paso Project , became interested in his work with community-academy partnerships, and over the past year they have continued to discuss ways in which he, SLEHC and SRPH might partner.
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