Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions
SIRC Office of Refugee Health
SIRC Office of Refugee Health
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The Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center is a unit of the ASU Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions. Our interdisciplinary team of researchers partners with communities to conduct research and develop solutions to eliminate health disparities in the Southwest and beyond. SIRC includes several self-sustaining but integrated units, including the Office of Evaluation and Partner Contracts, the Office of Refugee Health and the Center for Applied Behavioral Health Policy and houses one of the nation's Specialized Centers of Excellence for Research on Minority Health and Health Disparities funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Impact of Donor Support
- More learners can pursue higher education. In 2022, 22,000 donors contributed $66.3 million for scholarships.
- More students succeed. ASU ranks #1 among the state’s public universities for its 86% first-year retention rate thanks in part to donor-funded student success initiatives.
- And donors helped ASU offer more than 4,500 hours of free tutoring.
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