Black Pre-Health at Yale

Health Organizations Dedicated to the Black Community

LGBTQ+ Healthcare

Center for Black Equity

The Center for Black Equity helps black members of the LGBTQ+ community gain information and combats an assortment of social injustices, such as access to resources and proper healthcare.

Center for Black Equity

The Audre Lorde Project

The Audre Lorde Project is located in the NYC area and is committed to improving the overall wellness of the LGBTQ+ POC community by tackling a number of issues, ranging from social justice issues to socioeconomic problems

The Audre Lorde Project

The Trevor Project

The Trevor Project is an organization which devotes itself to crisis intervention and suicide prevention among the LGBTQ+ youth. This organization serves all members of the LGBTQ+ community under 25, regardless of race.

The Trevor Project

Maternal/Child Healthcare

The Afiya Center

The Afiya Center is an organization located in Texas that works to promote reproductive justice for black women. It was originally founded once the HIV infection disparity among black women in Texas became apparent.

The Afiya Center

Jamaa Birth Village

Jamaa Birth Village is a non-profit organization dedicated to combatting elevated maternal mortality rates for African American women. The organization is centered in Ferguson, Missouri.

Jamaa Birth Village

Black Mamas Matter Alliance

Black Mamas Matter is an organization that works to imrpove maternal healthcare and promote research for a safer future for black mothers.

Black Mamas Matter Alliance

Ancient Song Doula

Ancient Song Doula is based out of Brooklyn and is working to overcome the health disparities faced by black mothers.

Ancient Song Doula

Shades of Blue Project

The Shades of Blue Project is an organization which devotes itself to maternal mental health. Its main focus is helping women with suffering mental health following complications from childbirth.

Shades of Blue Project

Sister Reach

Sister Reach is an organization based out of Memphis, Tennessee which works to increase social awareness about reproductive justice, specifically among people of color.

Sister Reach

Women's Health

Black Women for Wellness

Black Women for Wellness is an organization in California that strives to increase healthcare resources for black women, decrease the use of hair products that are damaging to health, and increase the power of black women fighting for better healthcare.

Black Women for Wellness

Center for Black Women's Wellness

The Center for Black Women's Wellness is an organization in Atlanta, Georgia that educates black women on resources to improve their overall healthcare experience for themselves and their families.

Center for Black Women's Wellness

California Black Women's Health Project

The California Black Women's Health Project is an organization that educates black women and encourages them to demand better for themselves when it comes to healthcare.

California Black Women's Health Project

Health Education/Community Engagement

BLKHLTH

BLKHLTH is an organization dedicated to educating the black community for the betterment of overall mental and physical health.

BLKHLTH

National African American Tobacco Prevention Network

The NAATPN is a network in conjunction with the CDC's Office on Smoking and Health that strives to reform healthcare policies in favor of the African American population.

National African American Tobacco Prevention Network

African American Health Coalition

The African American Health Coalition strives to provide affordable physical and mental health to African Americans nationwide.

African American Health Coalition

Family Health

Families for Equity

Families for Equity is an organization that seeks to amplify concerns of black families and provide education about parenting habits and social justice issues.

Families for Equity

National Association of Health Services Executives-Chicago Midwest Chapter

NAHSE Chicago promotes African American representation in healthcare so that the black community receives improved medical care.

NAHSE Chicago

Urban League of Portland

The Urban League of Portland is a civil rights organization that strives for social equality, including healthcare equality.

Urban League of Portland

California Black Health Network

The California Black Health Network works with other orgs to determine the most beneficial healthcare reforms for the black community.

California Black Health Network

Healthcare Research

Council on Black Health

The Council on Black Health performs research and connects with black healthcare organizations in the hopes to eventually eliminate racial health disparities.

Council on Black Health

Black AIDS Institute

The Black AIDS Institute strives to end the HIV epidemic that is prevalent in the black community with policy and advocacy.

Black AIDS Institute

Black Biomedical Research Movement

The Black Biomedical Research Movement seeks to diminish racial health disparities and hosts research symposiums to elevate health awareness among the black community.

Black Biomedical Research Movement