CNSTAT Current Projects: Panel on DHHS Collection of Race and Ethnicity Data

The Panel on DHHS Collection of Race and Ethnicity Data was convened by the Committee on National Statistics, National Research Council, in April 2002. Edward Perrin chairs the panel. He is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington.

This study will review DHHS’ data collection systems and practices, and any data collection or reporting systems required under Department programs. The panel will review data needs for evaluating the effects of socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity on access to health care and on disparity in health and other social outcomes and the data needed to enforce existing protections for equal access to heath care; evaluate the effectiveness of the data systems and collection practices of DHHS; and identify critical gaps in the data and suggest ways in which they could be filled.

EDWARD PERRIN (Chair), Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
ANTHONY D’ANGELO, Statistical Consultant, Phoenix, AZ
HECTOR BALCAZAR, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health,
University of North Texas, Fort Worth, TX
JOSE’ JULIO ESCARCE, The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
WILLIAM KALSBEEK, Survey Research Unit, Department of Biostatistics, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
GEORGE KAPLAN, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
DENISE LOVE, National Association of Health Data Organizations, Salt Lake City, UT
JOHN LUMPKIN, Department of Public Health, Springfield, IL
ALVIN ONAKA, Department of Health, Honolulu, HI
NEIL POWE, Welch Center for Prevention Epidemiology and Clinical Research, The Johns Hopkins
Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD
JONATHAN SKINNER, Department of Economics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
L. CARL VOLPE, Strategic Health Partnership WellPoint Health Networks Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA
DAVID WILLIAMS, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
ALAN ZASLAVSKY, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA