HEALTH COMMITTEE
- Work to promote, protect and maintain the health of African Americans
- Assess the health needs of the community
- Advocate for equal access to health education, care, treatment and research for all Americans
- Sponsor health-related activities such as health forums, fairs and workshops highlighting issues of importance to people of color
- Support the health initiatives of the Association
Upcoming Event
Nation’s four Black medical schools battle COVID-19
Dr. James Hildreth remembers the event that changed the direction of his medical career some 30 years ago and put him on the front lines against a deadly virus sweeping across the globe with devastating consequences for Black and Brown communities in the United States.
“I took care of a patient who just profoundly affected me,” recalled Hildreth, president and CEO of Meharry Medical College, in Nashville, Tenn. “That happens with a lot of medical students. It’s some clinical medical experience they’ll have that shapes what specialty they chose.”
That experience was in the late-1980s.
