Dr. William Lawson is Associate Dean for Health Disparities at the Dell Medical School and Director of Community Health Programs and Professor at Huston-Tillotson where he leads the Sandra Joy Anderson Community Health and Wellness Center. This past spring, he was named the first director of the Sandra Joy Anderson Community Health and Wellness Center at Huston-Tillotson, a historically black university in East Austin. He and his team will be working at both Huston-Tillotson and UT Austin to build the Anderson Center into a hub for increasing access to physical and mental health care for underserved communities across Travis County, and for promoting research that will shed light on the causes of health disparities.