Moving Toward A National Black Health Agenda: What African Americans Want from The Democratic and the Republican Party in Healthcare

Addressing Social Drivers of Health Addressing Social Drivers of Health

NBCI's' coalition of 150,000 churches with 27.7 million members is excited to share with you and the United States Congress our National Black Health Agenda. This agenda lays out a budgetary priority to eliminate African American morbidity and mortality.
Reducing the negative impact on quality of life and the psychosocial, and economic burden caused by lack of access to high-quality affordable healthcare is a main concern of forty-two million African American voters. We will vote according to our health interests regardless of political party.

The National Black Church Initiative
urges its 27.7 million members to stay up-to-date on their Immunization schedule
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NBCI's Forthcoming National Clinical Trial Strategic Plan

NBCI Health Booklet of the Issues Surrounding Health Disparities NBCI Health Booklet of the Issues Surrounding Health Disparities, its' Concerns and Challenges Confronting African Americans: Understanding Their Mortality and Morbidity by the Numbers .pdf [15.3mb]
This booklet will help you understand the health challenges faced by African Americans and serve as a guide to members of Congress, their staff and others who need to understand the magnitude of challenges to Black health and the historical gaps leading to a lack of access to care.

The National Black Church Initiative (NBCI) is a coalition of 150,000 African-American and Latino churches working to eradicate racial disparities in healthcare, technology, education, housing, and the environment. NBCI's mission is to provide critical wellness information to all of its members, congregants, churches and the public. The National Black Church Initiative's methodology is utilizing faith and sound health science.

The aim of this website is to offer our member congregants and the public helpful and healthy science-based tips on how to develop and maintain a healthy lifestyle. The website also offers the latest information on housing, education, technology and environmental issues.

The National Black Church Initiative's purpose is to partner with major organizations and officials whose main mission is to reduce racial disparities in the variety of areas cited above. NBCI offers faith-based, out-of-the-box and cutting-edge solutions to stubborn economic and social issues. NBCI's programs are governed by credible statistical analysis, science-based strategies and techniques, and methods that work.

NBCI is ushering in a new era of broadened engagement of Black and Latino communities in clinical trials. Particularly given the unethical and illegal behaviors involved with the Tuskegee Experiment and the intentional absence or lack of critical information for the involved subjects by governmental officials, the NBCI comprehensive approach utilizes important lessons learned from this historic medical abuse and ALL others experienced within Black and Latino communities for generating robust communication, demonstration, and education strategies toward substantially improving clinical trial participation
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Follow this link to all current NBCI programs! NCBI creates a variety of educational products including courses, workshops, webinars, training materials and documentation.
The Health Emergency Declaration (HED) is a comprehensive approach to tackling the tragic state of health in the Black community.
Given the economic principles that you cannot have continuous growth, you have to prepare yourself, your family and your community for the years where there is no growth at all.
Within the faith-based community there are more than 50,000 small businesses. NBCI plans to organize and empower them by providing informative material and seminars free of charge.
A civil society lifts everyone to the same level of humanity, and forces people to deal with each other's humanity. Our ultimate goal is to erase human prejudice, discrimination, hatred and especially violence.
Behind every creative endeavor exists a more profound concept without which a Community shrivels up and dies. NBCI supports the arts and endorses several theatre plays and movies.
NBCI has devised an Education Initiative, and already have volunteers working to drastically cut dropout rates and increase graduation rates.
NBCI has teamed with national mortgage and housing organizations to provide congregants and the public with information on how to keep their home.
NBCI is committed to helping organizations, churches and the internet and cable industry to bring broadband internet access into African American and Latino communities.
NBCI is in the forefront in implementing environmental policy in the faith community and in offering its perspective on environmental policy both domestically and globally.