[1] After the lecture she started to become more aware of health disparities in her own medical practise, and noticed that black patients did not receive the same diagnoses or treatment as their white counterparts who presented with the same symptoms.
When she arrived in North Carolina, she realised that there were significant disparities in healthcare provision for people in rural areas from ethnic minority communities.
[5] Corbie-Smith directs Project GRACE (Growing, Reaching, Advocating for Change and Empowerment), a large-scale initiative to stop the spread of HIV which involves members of the Nash and Edgecombe County communities.
[9] Corbie-Smith is part of the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute, where she leads Community Academic Resources for Engaged Scholarship (CARES) Services.
[1] In 2013 Corbie-Smith was made the Kenan Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and became the founding Director of the Center for Health Equity Research.