Members
Sarah Gehlert
Professor
Deputy Dean for Research
Director, Center for Health Disparities Research
Executive Committee, Institute for Mind and Biology
Investigator, University of Chicago Cancer Research Center
Research Associate, Center for Health Administration Studies
Contact Information
Phone: (773) 834-0665
Fax: (773) 702-6898
sgehlert@uchicago.edu
Institute for Mind and Biology
940 E. 57th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Areas of Research
Sarah Gehlert, Ph.D. is a Professor in the School of Social Service Administration and the Institute of Mind and Biology of the University of Chicago. She is the Principal Investigator and Director of the University's NIH-funded Center for Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research and project leader of one of its four interdependent research projects. Dr. Gehlert is Core Leader of the Health Disparities and Communities Core of the CDC-funded Chicago Center for Excellence in Health Promotion Economics. Dr. Gehlert directed the University of Chicago's Maternal and Child Health Training Program from 1992-1998 and was Principal Investigator on an NIMH-funded community-based study of rural and urban women's health and mental health from 1997-2001. She serves on the Internal Advisory Committee of the University of Chicago's Cancer Research Center and the External Advisory Committee of its Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in Breast Cancer, the Strategy Team of the California Breast Cancer Research Program's Special Research Initiatives, and the Chicago Breast Cancer Mortality Reduction Task Force. Her professional activities also include memberships on the Site Visit Committee of the Social and Behavioral Research Branch of the National Human Genome Research Institute, the Professional Advisory Board of the Epilepsy Foundation of Greater Chicago, the Research Advisory Council of the Epilepsy Foundation of America, and the steering committee of the Washington Park Children's Free Clinic in Chicago. She was Chair of NIH's 2007 Summer Institute on Community-Based Participatory Research. Dr. Gehlert serves as the President-Elect of the Society for Social Work and Research. She serves on the editorial board of Research in Social Work Practice and is a consulting editor of Social Work Research.
