Black History Month Events

As FDA Office of Minority Health and Health Equity (OMHHE) joins HHS and FDA in celebrating National Black History Month, we invite you view our latest webinar from the Health Equity Research Series with University of Maryland researcher, Dr. Claudia Baquet. In the webinar, OMHHE Acting Director Dr. Christine Lee and Dr. Baquet discuss Dr. Baquet’s ongoing research with Black and African American communities and COVID-19 clinical trials.

View the webinar here.

Join the Office of Assistant Secretary for Health Region 7 lunch and learn webinar series to discuss National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day and to hear about innovative strategies for HIV and STI prevention.

Join My Brother’s Keeper’s National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day webinar, in collaboration with CDC’s Let’s Stop HIV Together.

This event is an inspiring exploration of the arts’ role in healing and mental health awareness. Experience poignant narratives that shed light on mental health issues, told through the lens of talented HBCU student filmmakers. Engage with experts from the Department of Health and Human Services as they discuss vital resources available. This event is tailored for the HBCU community, but open to all, and promises to be enlightening and empowering.

In celebration of Black History Month, and as part of the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) Brown Bag series, please join a special conversation between: Dr. Jamila Perritt, President and CEO of Physicians for Reproductive Health; Assistant Secretary Loyce Pace, HHS Office of Global Affairs; and Director Melanie Fontes Rainer, OCR. This 60-minute conversation will focus on Black maternal health in the U.S. and the systemic inequities affecting access and health outcomes.

Join HHS Office of Minority Health and a panel of its partners for a webinar focused on applying lessons learned from COVID-19 to support vaccine confidence for other respiratory illnesses within Black and African American populations (e.g., influenza, RSV, Pneumococcal).

On behalf of Secretary Xavier Becerra and the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), we would like to invite you to save the date and register for the Black Health Forum. At this Forum, senior HHS, Biden-Harris Administration, and Black health leaders will highlight their work to improve equity and access to health care in the Black community. The Forum topics will focus on health care access, mental health, maternal mortality, and much more. We hope that you will be able to join us!

Please register here.

The NIMHD Director’s Seminar is a series of lectures highlighting prominent researchers who are advancing the science of minority health and health disparities. Dr. O. Kenrik Duru, professor of medicine at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA will explore the topic, Disparities in Diabetes Screening and Prevention by Race and Ethnicity. Dr. Duru's research interests include enhancing physical activity among older adults from racial and ethnic minority groups and designing interventions to reduce disparities in medication adherence and clinical outcomes among patients with diabetes. He also has a strong career/research focus on diabetes care and prevention and working with populations experiencing health disparities.

HRSA’s HIV/AIDS Bureau will highlight National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day and highlight two Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program recipients supporting Black communities during our monthly update webinar.