Disparities against the Black Community
White Americans are more likely to hold managerial positions in business than Black Americans. This is the percent difference between the rate at which White Americans and Black Americans hold managerial/professional positions.
He was the first Black person in America to receive a medical degree. As well as the first Black physician to own a pharmacy and be published in medical journals.
Who is James McCune Smith?
These institutions are located around the U.S. and are responsible for the medical training of all doctors.
What are medical schools?
What is exposure to racism?
This is the percent difference between the average income for a White individual and a Black individual.
What is 42%
He was the founding Dean of Morehouse School of Medicine, which served as the first Black medical school opened in the United States.
Who is Louis Wade Sullivan?
(Okay, technically not an organization). This is the most commonly chosen specialty for Black physicians.
What is Family Medicine?
This procedure involves the storage, removal, and replacement of blood in the human body. Some of the modern techniques used were pioneered by Dr. Charles Drew.
What is a blood transfusion?
Men in the top 1% of this spectrum lived, on average, 14.6 years longer than men in the bottom 1% of this spectrum.
What is the wealth spectrum? (Income, financial, etc. also accepted)
Black people account for 20.7% and white people account for 8.1% of this metric.
What is the overall poverty rate?
She was the first Black person to complete a residency in Ophthalmology.
Who is Patricia Era Bath?
This society is responsible for "improving health, advancing science, and fostering careers of African American and other minority underrepresented surgeons."
What is the Society for Black Academic Surgeons (SBAS)?
Pioneered by Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, this surgery involves the use of machinery to take the place of your heart and lungs during surgery.
What is open heart surgery?
This term is used to refer to the rate at which Black and Brown children are disproportionately impacted by school policies and laws, to the point of incarceration. In other words, it describes the rate at which Black and Brown children are funneled out of public schools and into the criminal justice system.
What is the "school to prison" pipeline?
The life expectancy for Black people is 6.8 years lower than for white people. This is the average life expectancy (for Black people) in America.
What is 71.8 (71 or 72) years?
This man was the first director for the Office of Minority Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. After leaving this position, he pioneered the project called "3000 by 2000" -- a program focused on enrolling 3,000 BIPOC students yearly into medical schools by the year 2000.
Who is Herbert W. Nickens?
Founded in 1909, this Civil Rights Organization serves as one of the founding organizations grappling and fighting for the equality of Black people. This organization's current mission is, "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination."
What is the NAACP?
This invention was developed by Leonidas Berry to remove diseased stomach tissue from the gut.
What is the gastroscopy scope?
Black people are 30% more likely than white people to die from heart disease. This is the most commonly linked factor to death from heart disease in Black people.
What is obesity?
Black people experience an obesity rate this percentage higher than white people.
What is 11%?
She was the 18th U.S. Surgeon General serving as the first chair of the National Prevention Council. She is also the CEO of BayouClinic located in Bayou La Batre, Louisiana.
This organization is the oldest 501(c)(3) non-profit committed to the representation of Black physicians and their patients. Their goal is to improve the quality of health for communities that have been historically marginalized.
What is the NMA (National Medical Association)?
Samuel Kountz performed the first successful kidney transplant between two people that were not twins and created this device to allow a kidney to live for up to 50 hours between donor transplants.
What is the (Belzer) kidney perfusion machine?
This type of racism refers to the fact that communities of color suffer the harmful effects of pollution at higher rates than white populations.
What is Environmental Racism?