Morehouse School of Medicine Receives $950K Towards Building Academic Research Facility
The federal funding will expand the campus' abilities to conduct research and address burnout at Atlanta's only historically Black medical school.
By Amanda Andrews, GPB News
Morehouse School of Medicine is sharing more about its plans for a new academic research building. U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams visited the main MSM campus on Monday, March 9 to learn more about the facility she helped secure federal funding for in 2023.
Congresswoman Williams presented Morehouse School of Medicine with a check for $950,000 to build the facility. She said this investment is about advancing the school’s research and workforce development.
“Every dollar is an investment in this institution and an investment in the future of a more equitable healthcare field,” Rep. Williams said. “One that serves all, no matter their ZIP code and no matter their bank account. HBCUs are engines of opportunity, leadership and equity.”
The new facility will offer larger classrooms, a simulation space and an expanded animal care facility.
Morehouse School of Medicine President and CEO Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD, FACOG, said the simulations will build future doctors’ resilience.
“The learner can see how they’re engaging with the patient or engaging in this team-based activity and what their triggers are,” Dr. Montgomery Rice said. “You can then implement interventions to help them mitigate, mediate, that so that they then are having less burnout.”
This expansion is part of an effort by the historically Black medical school to expand enrollment and improve healthcare access in Georgia.