NBCI Publications

Moving Toward A National Black Health Agenda: What African Americans Want from The Democratic and the Republican Party in Healthcare.pdf [11.14mb]

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.

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.

Recommendations to the Food and Drug Administration

Since little published work on participation barriers for clinical trials among minorities exists, the purpose of this report is to summarize and distill approaches routinely used in clinical trial education and recruitment initiatives of minority or disadvantaged groups in other disease areas.

NBCI Clinical Trials Education Awareness and Participation Program (CTEAPP): A New Path Toward Clinical Trials In the African American Community .pdf [6.09mb]
The National Black Church Initiative is initiating a fifteen part nationwide lecture series that will highlight noted African American clinicians and to further NBCI Clinical Trials Education Awareness and Participation Program (CTEAPP). The lecture series is another important building block of creating an expansive clinical trials initiative to increase minority participation. The goal of NBCI/ CETEAPP is to assure 15 percent or more black participation in clinical trials.

The Benefits and Risks of African American Participation in Clinical Trials: An Interactive Booklet of Learning .pdf [4.8mb]
The NBCI National Clinical Strategic Plan (NCTSP) is a comprehensive program poised to enhance understanding, education, and participation of African-Americans and Latinos and usher in a new era concerning the disproportionate representation of African-Americans and Latinos in clinical trials. Particularly given the documented medical abuses of African-Americans involved in the historic Tuskegee Experiment, the NCTSP engages access to 27.7 million African-Americans and Latinos with integrity, confidentiality, and health standards-based protocols. Test your Knowledge on Clinical Trials by visiting the clinical trials booklet.

IMMUNIZE NOW! .pdf [1mb]
NBCI Launches its "Immunize Now! Program. Our goal is to promote the education and immunization of 2 million African Americans over the next year from 2025 to 2026 according to the CDC immunization tables. Vaccines are our best defense against severe illness, hospitalization, and death from disease. The National Black Church Initiative urges its 27.7 million members to stay up-to-date on their Immunization schedule

Vaccnews Issue #1: Black Doctors say COVID-19 Vaccines are Good and Safe for Black People

• What is COVID-19 and how did it start?
  COVID-19 is a virus. Unlike bacteria, which are complete cells and can live on their own, viruses are not complete cells and cannot live on their own. They must live inside hosts (like birds, animals, or human beings) to survive. Under a microscope, coronaviruses look like balls with spikes all over them that form a corona. There are several kinds of coronaviruses, and they all attack the lungs and make it hard to breathe. Scientists think the COVID-19 virus developed in bats near Wuhan, China, spread from bats to humans, and spread to the rest of the world as people travelled to and from China. The fact that COVID-19 started in animals and spread to humans is common.
• Is This a Conspiracy Against Black People?
  No. Everyone in the world is affected by COVID-19: White people, Latino people, Asian people, South American people, African people, European people, and people in the Pacific Islands get COVID-19. Everyone gets it and that’s why everyone needs to get vaccinated against it.

Vaccnews Issue #2: Facts and Good News About COVID-19 Vaccines

• 150,000 Black Churches Support What Black Doctors are saying about the COVID-19 Vaccines
  Following a thorough safety review, including two meetings of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the pause regarding the use of the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) COVID-19 Vaccine in the U.S. was lifted on April 23, 2021 for adults aged 18 years and older in the United States.
• Why Were the Vaccines Made So Fast?
  The vaccines were made so fast because scientists found a new way to make vaccines that works really well called the mRNA method. Many vaccines in the future will use this method and will be made just as fast. That’s very good news!

Sickle Cell News: “Giving Voice to Sickle Cell Survivors and Supporters”
The National Black Church Initiative (NBCI) and its 150,000 African American and Latino churches are leveraging their collective power and community influence to highlight the prevailing needs of those who directly and indirectly suffer from Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) and its subsequent crippling and debilitating effects

The NBCI Health Emergency Declaration: A National Health Prevention Program .pdf [1.6mb]
The National Black Church Initiative declares a national health emergency in the Black church highlighting the health crisis in the African American community. This paper explains why we are taking such dramatic actions and the proven, scientific methods we will be using to solve the crisis.

The National Black Church Initiative’s Innovative Health Policy Plan for Our Nation (IHPPON): In Response to the Senate and House Health Reform Legislation 2.64mb
The National Black Church Initiative is pleased to present you a copy of its innovative health policy plan for our nation. We have observed the proceedings of Congress, who we have elected to represent our interests. Suffice to say, those proceedings representing our health care since 2000 have painful to watch in a nation as rich and prosperous as ours. We have watched Congress and their deliberations as they doll out inefficient means that do not meet our healthcare needs.

The National Black Church Initiative Briefing on the National Clinical Trial Strategic Plan (NCTSP) to The Food and Drug Administration
NCTSP provides comprehensive education and empowerment to 30,000 To 50,000 NBCI members on the risks and benefits of clinical trial participation every year. Our Mission is to Educate, Empower, Recruit, and Sustain Maximum Participation of African Americans in Clinical Trials!

NBCI Stands ready and willing to work with the FDA in any capacity as we begin to implement the National Clinical Trial Strategic Plan (NCTSP)

A Faith-Based Strategy to Defeat Cancer in the African American Community 435kb
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is the federal government's principal agency for cancer research and training. NCI leads, conducts, and supports cancer research across the nation to advance scientific knowledge and help all people live longer, healthier lives.

NBCI brings an enormous strength in terms of having one of the most effective community science-based initiatives in the country which incorporates the faith and the civil communities.

National Black Church Initiative Calls for $2.25 Trillion in Spending for African American Healthcare in New Report .pdf [58kb]
The National Black Church Initiative (NBCI), a coalition of 150,000 African American churches, which constitute over 27.7 million churchgoers, has released its National Black Health Agenda Report, calling for $2.25 trillion in additional spending for African American healthcare.

The report was sent to the White House, GOP, and the 118th US Congress, urging immediate action to address the disparities in healthcare faced by the Black community. The report highlights the alarming statistics of the current state of African American healthcare, including higher rates of chronic diseases, lower life expectancy, and inadequate access to quality healthcare.

Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) recognizes NBCI work on COVID-19 .pdf [58kb]
Leveraging a network of 150,000 churches to advance the public's health could prove to be a potent national model for eliminating Black and Latino racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care across the US. In 2021, NBCI announced a 5-year plan that offers the CDC its 150 000 Black and Latino churches across the US as vaccination centers. The plan will include a national advisory committee of 9 prominent Black and Latino physicians who have evaluated the effectiveness of each COVID-19 vaccine; will leverage approximately 1000 Black and Latino US medical professionals to administer vaccines; and will mobilize several million volunteers to raise awareness among and communicate to underserved communities, provide transportation to vaccination centers, and ensure that communities of racial and ethnic minority populations obtain their second vaccinations (when indicated).