September 11, 2023, SILVER SPRING, MD
The National Medical Association (NMA) is pleased to announce it has entered into a partnership agreement with Partners for Advancing Health Equity (P4HE Collaborative) to support the organization in its efforts to improve health equity and practices within the organization and for those it serves.
P4HE Collaborative, led by Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, is part of the Tulane Institute for Innovation in Health Equity, and, supported by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, promotes research, learning, and collaboration across sectors to advance health equity. It is designed to spark discussion, facilitate learning, innovation, and resource exchange to advance action-oriented health equity research, practice, and policies.
Through this partnership NMA will actively collaborate with thought leaders in the health equity field and have access to an extensive centralized resource library, as well as learning activities such as workshops and webinars. The organization will also have the opportunity to share its efforts and interventions to advance health equity.
“The National Medical Association is enthusiastic about this collaboration, which advances health equity, and where everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their optimal health regardless of race, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socioeconomic, or geographic status,” said Garfield A.D. Clunie, MD, NMA 123rd president.
“We are excited to work together with the National Medical Association to better understand the latest issues related to attaining health equity and align efforts to create consistency, processes, and guidance. We look forward to creating a community where we all work together toward the goal of health equity”, Thomas LaVeist, Dean, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and Principal Investigator for P4HE Collaborative.
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The NMA promotes the collective interests of physicians and patients of African descent. We carry out this mission by serving as the collective voice of physicians of African descent and is a leading voice for parity in medicine, elimination of health disparities and promotion of optimal health.
Yolanda M. Lawson, MD Contact: Michael Peery
NMA 124th President (312) 217-2260 mlp@lengarmedia.com
Joy D. Calloway, MBA, MHSA Executive Director
