We are a non-profit that consists of minority public health advocates who seek to call attention to health inequities within BIPOC communities, demand better health outcomes for these communities, and identify problems and promote practical solutions.
We produce and distribute podcasts, webinars, film trailers and consumer education campaigns to raise awareness about solutions to social determinants of health (SDOH) and syndemics in BIPOC communities.
Our focus includes safe housing, transportation, and neighborhoods; racism, discrimination, and violence; education, job opportunities, and income; access to nutritious foods and physical activity opportunities; polluted air and water; language and literacy skills.
We highlight factors that work together to make a disease or health crisis worse such as COVID-19 and HIV/AIDS.
Our consumer education campaigns call attention to medical apartheid such as Black Maternal Mortality where Black women in the U.S. are about three times as likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause as others, partly because of racial bias they may experience in getting care and doctors not recognizing risk factors such as high blood pressure.
We address health disparities among minority and underserved communities such as children from low literacy, rural and low-income populations.
Our public health communications campaigns call attention to food inequities where low-income, impoverished Black and Hispanic neighborhoods have fewer large supermarkets and more small grocery corner stores, convenience stores, and fast-food restaurants than White neighborhoods.
It is estimated that the U.S. could save nearly $230 million in medical care costs if racial and ethnic health disparities did not exist.
Our consumer education campaigns focus on decriminalizing mental illness among Black men. Research show that no other demographic group experiences incarceration as much as Black men.
We produce podcasts and consumer education campaigns that focus on communities with low life expectancy.
Our social change communications campaigns highlight environmental injustices such as the deliberate targeting of communities of color for toxic waste facilities, poisons and pollutants.
Our consumer education campaigns call for the elimination of predatory marketing practices to the Black community including dense advertising, discounts, and e-cigarette sampling.
We are supporters of proactive, evidence- based harm reduction approaches and interventions such as drug decriminalization or legalization aimed to reduce the harms associated with drug and alcohol use.
Our consumer education campaigns are heavily researched and constructed on evidence-based, peer-reviewed studies.
Reproductive oppression is nothing new to Black Women. During Slavery, enslaved Black women were forced into pregnancy to help build the nation’s economy. Today, expectant Black women are criminalized or excluded from abortion on the basis of poverty, and many local states, through child welfare
systems, take Black children from Black moth
Reproductive oppression is nothing new to Black Women. During Slavery, enslaved Black women were forced into pregnancy to help build the nation’s economy. Today, expectant Black women are criminalized or excluded from abortion on the basis of poverty, and many local states, through child welfare
systems, take Black children from Black mothers at a disproportionate rate. And the Hyde Amendment excludes government support for abortions, thereby excluded funding for women who Black and who are poor.
For your financial support with our various consumer education/social change/public health public service announcements, visit our How to Give page for more information. When you give a little, it helps a lot!
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