Health Disparities and Impact
Movement focused on reducing high death rates among Black mothers during childbirth.
What is the Black Maternal Health movement?
Organization formed because Black physicians were excluded from the AMA.
National Medical Association?
First Black dentist in the United States.
Who is Robert Tanner Freeman?
Unethical study where Black men with syphilis were denied treatment.
What is the Tuskegee Syphilis Study?
This physician organized the first American Red Cross blood drive and improved blood plasma storage during WWII.
Who is Charles R. Drew?
Type of care many communities lack that leads to higher tooth decay rates.
What is preventive dental care?
Historically Black medical school in Washington, D.C.
What is Howard University College of Medicine?
First Black woman dentist in the United States.
Who is Ida Gray Nelson Rollins?
1954 Supreme Court case that helped desegregate education and medical schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Founded Provident Hospital in Chicago, one of the first Black-owned hospitals in the U.S.
Who is Daniel Hale Williams?
Cells taken without consent that helped develop vaccines and cancer research.
What are HeLa cells?
Historically Black medical school in Nashville, Tennessee.
What is Meharry Medical College?
First Black person to earn a medical degree in the U.S.
Who is James McCune Smith?
1964 law that prohibited discrimination in hospitals receiving federal funding.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Her cancer cells, known as HeLa cells, revolutionized medical research.
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
Major barrier to healthcare linked to insurance, transportation, and income.
What is access to care?
First Black-owned hospital in the United States.
What is Provident Hospital?
First Black president of the American Medical Association (2021).
Who is Gerald E. Harmon?
1965 federal programs that expanded access to healthcare for elderly and low-income Americans.
What are Medicare and Medicaid?
First Black woman to earn a medical degree in the United States.
Who is Rebecca Lee Crumpler?
Efforts to increase minority representation in healthcare professions.
What is workforce diversity (pipeline programs)?
Organization advocating for Black dentists nationwide.
What is the National Dental Association?
First Black woman U.S. Surgeon General.
Who is Joycelyn Elders?
Recent pandemic that revealed major racial health disparities in the U.S.
What is COVID-19?
Renowned pediatric neurosurgeon who separated conjoined twins in a groundbreaking 1987 surgery.
Who is Ben Carson?