Pioneers in Public Health
She was the first Black female physician in the U.S. in 1864 and an advocate for public health.
Who is Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler?
This chronic disease disproportionately affects Black Americans due to systemic inequities in healthcare access and nutrition.
What is diabetes?
This pandemic disproportionately affected Black and Brown communities in 2020.
What is COVID-19?
This public health crisis in Michigan disproportionately harmed Black communities due to contaminated water.
What is the Flint Water Crisis?
This HBCU, known for its medical program, was the first to open a school of public health at an HBCU.
What is Morgan State University?
This African American doctor developed a treatment for glaucoma and performed the first successful open-heart surgery.
Who is Dr. Daniel Hale Williams?
Black women are three times more likely than white women to die from this health complication.
What is pregnancy/childbirth?
The AIDS crisis disproportionately affected Black communities in the 1980s due to healthcare disparities. This organization was founded to address this issue.
What is the Black AIDS Institute?
Long-term exposure to this type of air pollution is linked to higher asthma rates in Black communities.
What are PM2.5 (fine particulate matter) and air pollution?
This Atlanta-based HBCU is home to the Satcher Health Leadership Institute.
What is Morehouse School of Medicine?
The first Black American to serve as U.S. Surgeon General, he focused on reducing tobacco use and health disparities.
Who is Dr. David Satcher?
The unethical 40-year-long study of untreated syphilis in Black men was known as this.
What is the Tuskegee Study?
This viral infection, eradicated in 1980, had devastating impacts on enslaved Africans and indigenous populations.
What is smallpox?
This term describes the pattern of placing toxic waste sites and industrial pollution in Black and low-income communities.
What is environmental racism?
The U.S. Surgeon General who led efforts against health disparities and tobacco use is an alumnus of this HBCU.
What is Morehouse College?
She was a nurse, civil rights leader, and founder of the National Black Nurses Association.
Who is Dr. Lauranne Brown Sams?
This federal policy of the mid-20th century contributed to racial segregation and disparities in healthcare access.
What is redlining?
This 19th-century cholera outbreak exposed the lack of sanitation in Black neighborhoods in major U.S. cities.
What is the 1832 Cholera Epidemic?
This environmental activist fought against toxic waste dumping in Warren County, North Carolina, sparking the environmental justice movement.
Who is Dr. Benjamin Chavis?
This HBCU has a longstanding partnership with the CDC to train public health leaders.
What is Howard University?
This epidemiologist and researcher became the first Black female director of the CDC.
Who is Dr. Rochelle Walensky?
This term describes how long-standing exposure to racism and discrimination can negatively impact health.
What is weathering?
Named after the city where it started, this 1918 pandemic disproportionately impacted Black soldiers during WWI.
What is the Spanish Flu?
This landmark 1987 report was one of the first to provide statistical evidence that hazardous waste sites were disproportionately located in Black and low-income communities, helping to shape the environmental justice movement.
What is "Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States"?
The first Black woman to serve as Dean of an HBCU school of public health led this university.
What is Jackson State University?