Results To Date
Impact on the Community (as of March 01, 2022)
Success measured by community engagement, testing and vaccination events, and those tested and/or vaccinated
Key Milestone: Addressing Health Equity in the Black Community
Establishment of the National Black Clergy Health Leadership Council – Quest Diagnostics provides support as founding partner
Choose Healthy Life Launches with its First National Conclave – Medical Advisory Board introduced
Regional launches in NYC, Detroit, Newark, Atlanta and DC – 50 churches onboarded
Visits from First Lady Jill Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris
HRSA Funding – $9.9 Million – only faith-based organization to receive funding to expand vaccination efforts
Additional HRSA funding of $1 million
HRSA initiative implementation – 120 Churches and 13 states
Recent Highlights
Hope and Healing for Today’s Black Health Crisis
“Hope and Healing for Today’s Black Health Crisis” aired live on the Word Network to millions of homes on September 21st. Hosted by the Detroit Association of Black Organizations and [...]
Choose Healthy Life and founder Debra Fraser-Howze urge the U.S. Government to act quickly to ensure equity in the fight against Monkeypox after latest CDC data indicates communities of color are disproportionately impacted. “We must take immediate action on the lessons we learned from COVID-19 and use them to reduce the spread and suffering.. we are not going back to normal… we died in normal.”
https://www.newsweek.com/monkeypox-must-not-another-covid-19-communities-color-opinion-1734952
National Black Clergy and Medical Leaders from ‘Choose Healthy Life’ Meet with HHS Sec. Xavier Becerra to Discuss Role of the Black Church in Addressing Health Equity, Opportunities for Improving Health Outcomes for Communities of Color
6-28-2022 Secretary of Health & Human Services Press Conf Reproductive Rights Following Meeting, Rev. Al Sharpton, Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, Debra Fraser-Howze and Dr. Louis Sullivan Say [...]
Impact on the Community – CHL Conclave – Nov. 2021
“Your model of establishing in each church a full-time public health navigator … trained and charged with providing access to COVID-19 testing and vaccinations in the immediate short-term while addressing other health disparities in the long term … is a sustainable, scalable, and transferable approach to address public health disparities and inequities in the Black community … it will serve us well far beyond the pandemic.”
– Dr. Rochelle Walensky, CDC Director, remarks at the Choose Healthy Life Conclave on Nov. 19, 2021
