{"id":5649,"date":"2024-06-20T14:56:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T14:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/diversity-supplement-workshop-2024\/?p=5649"},"modified":"2024-06-24T17:13:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T17:13:08","slug":"kumar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/diversity-supplement-workshop-2024\/2024\/06\/20\/kumar\/","title":{"rendered":"Deepak Kumar, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-full wp-image-5650 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/diversity-supplement-workshop-2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/85\/2024\/06\/Kumar.png\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/diversity-supplement-workshop-2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/85\/2024\/06\/Kumar.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27300%27%20height%3D%27300%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20300%20300%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27300%27%20height%3D%27300%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/diversity-supplement-workshop-2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/85\/2024\/06\/Kumar-66x66.png 66w, https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/diversity-supplement-workshop-2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/85\/2024\/06\/Kumar-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/diversity-supplement-workshop-2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/85\/2024\/06\/Kumar-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/diversity-supplement-workshop-2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/85\/2024\/06\/Kumar.png 300w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Deepak Kumar serves as the Associate Provost and Dean of Research at North Carolina Central University (NCCU), where he is also a professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences. He oversees the Julius L. Chambers Biomedical Biotechnology Research Institute (JLC-BBRI) and the Biomanufacturing Research Institute and Technology Enterprise (BRITE), each focused on health disparities research and advancing the biomedical workforce.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Kumar is also the Principal Investigator of the NCCU RCMI Center for Health Disparities Research. Through RCMI, Dr. Kumar has strategically centered health disparities within NCCU\u2019s research agenda. His proactive response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Advanced Center for COVID-19 Related Disparities (ACCORD), addressed critical issues \u2013 testing access and vaccine hesitancy among underserved populations. Furthermore, he founded the Health Equity, Environment and Population Health (HOPE) program and the Rural Health Hub, which foster health equity through collaborative efforts with local health departments and community organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Kumar has been continuously funded by NIH for over two decades as PI.\u00a0 Throughout his career, Dr. Kumar has mentored numerous undergraduate and graduate students as well as postdocs and junior faculty.\u00a0 His expertise in cancer biology, health disparities and community programming has substantially advanced the study of health disparities and community-engaged healthcare solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Dr. Deepak Kumar serves as the Associate Provost and Dean of Research at North Carolina Central University (NCCU), where he is also a professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences. He oversees the Julius L. Chambers Biomedical Biotechnology Research Institute (JLC-BBRI) and the Biomanufacturing Research Institute and Technology Enterprise (BRITE), each focused on health disparities research and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/diversity-supplement-workshop-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/diversity-supplement-workshop-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/diversity-supplement-workshop-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/diversity-supplement-workshop-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/diversity-supplement-workshop-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/diversity-supplement-workshop-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5691,"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/diversity-supplement-workshop-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649\/revisions\/5691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/diversity-supplement-workshop-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/diversity-supplement-workshop-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/diversity-supplement-workshop-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/diversity-supplement-workshop-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}