Carolina Consortium on Health, Inequalities, and Populations (CHIP)

What We Do

In the United States, stark and persistent health inequalities exist by race, class, gender, sexuality, and geography. Reducing and eliminating health inequalities across population groups, both within our state and nationwide, requires an interdisciplinary and multi-method approach that actively and thoughtfully examines the social determinants that produce health inequalities over the life course. The Carolina Consortium on Health, Inequalities, and Populations (CHIP) at the University of South Carolina was established in 2013 to respond to this need. Since its founding, CHIP has brought together an interdisciplinary group of scholars whose research addresses how social processes influence population dynamics and health inequalities.