Program Grants, Education and Community Outreach
“Changing lives and affecting health outcomes”
NMA’s membership is comprised of physicians in primary care specialties, as well as other medical and surgical sub-specialties, academic medicine, military medicine and medical administration. NMA members serve a disproportionately high number of underserved patients who are African American or members of other minority populations, and they practice in primarily urban and rural areas.
Programmatic Capacity:
Since 1975, the Association has participated in a wide variety of externally funded projects. These projects have been funded by federal, state and local governments, private foundations, pharmaceutical companies, and and private corporations. In addition, the NMA has experience working with several research institutes at the National Institutes of Health. They include the National Cancer Institute, the National Eye Institute, the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, among other federal entities.
The NMA has an extensive national, regional, and local infrastructure for promoting its programs. It has over 100 state and local affiliate societies that are organized within six geographic regions, providing an optimum structure for the implementation of programs that have a national, regional and local impact.
The organizational structure of the NMA provides an established framework of collaborative linkages within which physicians, as a principal group of health professionals, can be mobilized to address major health issues and implement national health program initiatives and treatment programs. These physicians and the health institutions with which they are affiliated are a “natural” structure for addressing concerns that disproportionately or differentially impact minorities and underserved populations.
Overall Strategic Goal:
The National Medical Association’s goal is to contribute to health promotion and disease prevention initiatives that are aimed at enhancing the overall health of the nation.
Programmatic Goals:
Assure that the NMA’s disease prevention and health promotion efforts effectively address and develop successful strategies to changing lives and affecting health outcomes as it applies to African American and other ethnic groups in the United States, Puerto Rico and Caribbean.
- Promote health promotion initiatives through innovative scientific investigations and disease prevention to reduce the disproportionate burden of disease, illness and morbidity in African American and other ethnic groups.
- Develop an effective internal and external communication network related to changing lives and affecting health outcomes.
Programmatic Objectives:
