Dr. Leonard Egede is an associate professor of medicine, and the Director of MUSC’s Center of Disparities Research. He has been awarded a Veterans Health Administration grant for Disease Prevention and Health Interventions in Diverse Populations and a National Institute of Health Grant on Telephone Delivered Behavior Skills Intervention in Type 2 Diabetes. He discusses areas of health disparity research along with both general and disease specific measures including diabetes in South Carolina and the affects of the economic downturn on health disparity.