The Center employs a variety of strategies to accomplish its mission.

At the community level, the Center builds capacity for health work among community-serving organizations. We train community members to provide outreach, education, and screening in a variety of topical areas, ranging from cancer to tuberculosis, to health system access. The Center works with the ethnic media and with key community leaders to ensure that health promoting messages and programs are broadly delivered, in a culturally and linguistically appropriate manner. We make special efforts to reach those immigrants and refugees who are recent arrivals and who are undocumented. The community actively informs our work.

At the practitioner level, there is ongoing provider education in caring for immigrant and refugee populations, cross-linguistic and cross-cultural healthcare delivery, and immigrant and refugee epidemiologic issues. The Center has an active Roundtable and Conference Program, as well as a social marketing program. Scholarly immigrant health publications are developed.

At the systemic/institutional level, technical assistance is provided to institutions in the development of institutional immigrant receptivity, and in culturally and linguistically accessible healthcare. Innovative medical interpretation systems have been developed and are being implemented. Dynamic cultural competence trainings are being implemented.

Technological solutions to education and health access are designed, tested, and disseminated.

Research is being conducted in a number of arenas, including language and healthcare access, epidemiology, and community-based strategies for practitioner and community education and access.

The Center welcomes and encourages the participation of its many constituencies in its program and research development and implementation.

Help The Center for Immigrant Health in its efforts to eliminate ethnic and racial disparities in healthcare through research, outreach and education, information dissemination, and program and policy development.