Since medical faculty, Joseph E. Ravenell, MD, affiliate professor within the Departments of Inhabitants Well being and Medication, has been working to handle the well being disparities that have an effect on communities of colour, and specifically, the Black neighborhood.
By partnering with barbershops, Dr. Ravenell engages with Black males to boost consciousness about hypertension (with the Division of Inhabitants Well being) and colorectal most cancers (with the Division of Inhabitants Well being and NYU Langone Well being’s Perlmutter Most cancers Middle). Dr. Ravenell additionally co-directs the Beatrice W. Welters Breast Well being Outreach and Navigation Program, which engages with Black ladies to boost consciousness about breast most cancers.
Dr. Ravenell and David Brown, a peer advocate within the Division of Comparative Effectiveness and Resolution Science who works with Dr. Ravenell on the barbershop outreach program, discuss their work to enhance most cancers well being fairness within the Black neighborhood with Most cancers Assist Group’s Frankly Talking About Most cancers podcast.
“I discovered that barbers are phenomenally gifted individuals who know find out how to join with individuals and find out how to get their prospects to essentially get entangled of their well being. They’re unbelievable allies and trusted key opinion leaders,” says Dr. Ravenell, who’s co-leader of Perlmutter Most cancers Middle’s Group Outreach and Engagement Program. “Every time we’re speaking about well being fairness for any neighborhood, I feel discovering these trusted leaders in no matter neighborhood you might be speaking about is the important thing to us beginning to obtain fairness.”
Hearken to Dr. Ravenell’s complete interview with Most cancers Assist Group’s Frankly Talking About Most cancers.
