Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Editor

Virginia M. Brennan, PhD, MA

Senior Editorial Assistants

Robin Griffin

Subhankar Mukhopadhyay, BS, BA, MA

Minzi Thomas, MA

Editorial Board

David Baines, MD, Past President of the Association of American Indian Physicians Family Practitioner, Tlingit and Tsimpsian Tribes, AK ILIULIUK Family and Health Services, Unalaska, AK

Claudia Baquet, MD, MPH, Associate Dean for Policy and Planning Professor of Medicine University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Gillian R. Barclay, DDS, MPH, DrPH, Sub-Regional Advisor, Office of Caribbean Program Coordination Pan American Health Organization Regional Office of the World Health Organization Dayrells and Navy Gardens Roads, Barbados

Carl Bell, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer Community Mental Health Council, Chicago, IL

Daniel Blumenthal, MD, MPH, Professor and Chairman

Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

James Blumstein, LLB, University Professor of Constitutional Law and Health Law and Policy Vanderbilt Law School, Nashville, TN

William P. Brandon, PhD, MPH, CPH, Metrolina Medical Foundation Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Political Science & Public Administration Department; Public Policy PhD Program University of North Carolina Charlotte

Robert D. Bullard, PhD, Director, Environmental Justice Resource Center Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA

Moon S. Chen, Jr., PhD, MPH, Professor, Division of Hematology and Oncology Department of Internal Medicine Principal Investigator, Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness Research and Training (AANCART) Associate Director, Population Research & Cancer Disparities, UC Davis Cancer Center, Sacramento, CA

Glenn Flores, MD, FAAP, Professor of Pediatrics & Public Health Director of the Division of General Pediatrics, Judith and Charles Ginsburg Chair in Pediatrics, UT Southwestern Medical Center and Children's Medical Center, Dallas, TX

David Harrowe, JD, MD, Gila River Indian Reservation Department of Public Health Gila River Indian Community, Sacaton, AZ

M. Alfred Haynes, MD, MPH, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science Los Angeles, CA

Edith Irby Jones, MD, Past President, National Medical Association, Houston, TX

Wilbert C. Jordan, MD, MPH, Director, OASIS Clinic and HIV/AIDS Program, Martin Luther King Jr. Multi Ambulatory Care Clinics Associate Professor, Internal Medicine and Family Practice Charles Drew University, Los Angeles, CA

Ralph Katz, DMD, MPH, PhD, Professor and Chair, New York University College of Dentistry, Department of Epidemiology & Health Promotion, New York, NY

Paul J. Kaye, M.D., EVP,, Practice Transformation, Hudson River HealthCare, Inc., Peekskill, NY

Rosalyn C. King, PharmD, MPH, Program Manager, Office of International Programs Howard University Continuing Education, Silver Spring, MD

Robert S. Levine, MD, Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Meharry Medical College School of Medicine, Nashville, TN

Maria F. Lima, PhD, Dean, School of Graduate Studies and Research, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN

Vickie M. Mays, PhD, MSPH,, Professor of Psychology and Health Services, University of California Los Angeles Director, UCLA Center on Research, Education, Training and Strategic Communication on Minority Health Disparities, Los Angeles, CA

Anna McPhatter, PhD, LCSW, Chairperson, Department of Social Work Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD

Kyu Bak Rhee, MD, MPP, FAAP, FACP, Director, Office of Innovation and Program Coordination National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

Robert G. Robinson, MSW, DrPH, Associate Director of Program Operations, Office on Smoking and Health Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

Patricia Rodney, RN, PhD, MPH, Professor, Department of Community Health & Preventive Medicine & Director, Master of Public Health Program Morehouse School of Medicine National Center for Primary Care, Atlanta, GA

Victor Sidel, MD , Distinguished University Professor of Social Medicine Montefiore Medical Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY

George W. Taylor, DMD, DrPH, Associate Professor, University of Michigan School of Dentistry Department of Cardiology, Restorative Sciences & Endodontics, Ann Arbor, MI

Bailus Walker, Jr., PhD, MPH, Past President of the American Public Health Association Professor, Department of Community Family Medicine Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC

Rueben C. Warren, DDS, MPH, DrPH, M.Div., Adjunct Professor of Public Health, Medicine and Ethics Interdenominational Theological Center Adjunct Professor, Behavioral Sciences and Health Education Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University Clinical Professor, Community Health and Preventive Medicine Morehouse School of Medicine Adjunct Professor, Public Health Dentistry, School of Dentistry School of Graduate Studies and Research, Meharry Medical College, Atlanta, GA

Ruth Enid Zambrana, PhD, Professor, Department of Women's Studies Director, Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity Interim Director of U.S. Latino Studies Initiative, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Ed Zuroweste, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Chief Medical Officer, Migrant Clinicians Network, State College, PA