Contact: Robbie Ward
STARKVILLE, Miss.--Mississippi State's Social Science Research Center now is home for the Northeast Mississippi Area Health Education Center, part of a program focusing on critical statewide health-care issues.
The nationally recognized university center will focus on policy research in health-related areas, including physician access, patient loads and ambulance service in rural areas, said Caleb Butts, assistant director of the Northeast AHEC.
Increasing public awareness of health-care and work-force related issues are other missions, he added, in explaining the SSRC's collaborative role.
"It's important to have it here because the SSRC already carries out this type of research," Butts said.
The Mississippi AHEC has six offices, including the program office in Jackson. As part of conducting its extensive research, each AHEC office develops partnerships with area school districts, health-care providers, private foundations, and communities.
Lynne S. Cossman--a SSRC fellow and associate professor in the department of sociology, anthropology and social work--is director of the Northeast Mississippi AHEC Center.
Founded more than a half-century ago, MSU's Social Science Research Center has developed a national reputation for its studies of the social, economic, political, human resource, and social-environmental problems facing the state, nation and world.
For more information, contact Butts at 662-325-7127 or caleb.butts@ssrc.msstate.edu.
For more information about Mississippi State University, see http://www.msstate.edu/.