HBCUs Alive!™
The benefits are substantial using a campus-wide health strategy; quite small reductions of average body weight, blood pressure and blood cholesterol confer substantial benefits on the health of student communities.
HBCUs Alive!™ is a program based on intramural collaborations for development and establishment of prevention initiatives and response efforts through strategic planning and implementation of campus-based activities and programs that promote healthy lifestyle choices among college students at historically black colleges and universities. Our team will work with your institution as it seeks to build the capacity of its students to make lifestyle choices that will serve them into adulthood and throughout their adult lives.
The impetus for HBCUs Alive!™ is Healthy Campus 2010, an effort linked to Healthy People 2010. Both of those national programs are focused on improving the health of individuals, communities and the Nation. Healthy Campus 2010 has two goals: (a) to increase quality and years of healthy life and (b) to eliminate health disparities. These goals have 28 focus areas, 467 specific objectives and 178 college-specific objectives. Our approach simplifies the program with a combination of high risk and population health strategies:
- The high risk strategy in public health focuses on those who are at increased risk of disease or disability or who have sub-clinical disease. This strategy involves screening and can be complex but it is usually cost-effective, with favorable benefit-risk ratios and high health professional acceptance.
- Prevention by the population health strategy is not easy since both subjects (a mix of normal and high risk individuals) and health professionals are difficult to motivate but may impart large benefits to the population. Current research shows the need for population-level strategies and we will work with your institution to adopt health conscious programs designed to engage the students in healthy life style decision-making.
HBCUs Alive!™ Partners
S&H Consulting, LLC. is a multi-disciplinary firm made up of attorneys and physicians with substantial backgrounds in public health and healthcare law. Its principals hold degrees in epidemiology, law, medicine and public health and have held various positions in academia domestically and internationally. S&H has the capacity to collect and analyze data remotely, develop reports based on the data and create organizational programs and initiatives based on the data collected. Clients of S&H have included Global Fortune 500 companies as well as federal agencies.
HealthPact, Inc. is a public health organization that was created in 1993 to build healthier African-American communities through communication, coordination and collaboration with health care service providers and consumers. HealthPact, Inc. meets these goals by screening for high blood pressure, high Cholesterol, diabetes, obesity and HIV for such critical organizations as the National Medical Association (NMA), the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and NBC 4 Health and Fitness Expo in Washington, DC.
Carson Company, LLC is dedicated to changing health care access paradigms through policy, regulation, practice and advocacy. Their CEO, Windy Carson-Smith, Esq. has defined the focus of the company through her more than two-decades work with nurses and has brought together a team of professionals with profound experience in the legislative, policy and regulatory arenas at the state, federal and national levels. Carson Company, LLC serves the needs of the American Nurses Association, the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists, the Joint Center for Political Studies, and numerous state nursing associations.
LHF Communications is a multimedia communications firm with more than 20 years experience in broadcast journalism, television and radio production and print media. Past clients include the American Bar Association, BET J, various universities and their affiliated healthcare organizations as well as local hospitals.
