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Community Interventions: Meet Our Community Health Leaders

Working Together To Promote Healthy Outcomes In Diverse Communities Through Data Analytics And Education

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Trusted voices in the community are ESSENTIAL partners in promoting health equity, engaging and educating diverse and underserved populations as well as connecting them to social determinants of health needs and health care. SHC programs engage churches and small business owners/entrepreneurs such as, barbers and hair stylists in these activities.

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Become a Health Champion today!

We provide toolkits, resources and technical assistance for our Faith Leaders and Health Champions to use as they engage in conversation with their community members about a variety of health topics that affect them.

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Health Champions

The Health Champions program is an expansion of our HAIR Wellness Warriors program and recruits barbers, hair stylists, small business owners, entrepreneurs (such as yoga instructors and personal trainers), and leaders of community-based organizations, equipping them with technical assistance on how to effectively communicate health topics, while building capacity for their business.

Health Champions have come together from across the nation to protect communities from ravages of the flu and COVID-19, as well as improve health outcomes for cancer screenings, lupus, clinical research and diabetes by providing education and outreach through direct education to clients and community events. These small business owners and entrepreneurs provide an approach that focuses at the hyperlocal level to understand people’s beliefs and concerns, encourage conversation, and spark health promotion at the community level.

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Faith Health Alliance

The Center for Sustainable Health Care and Equity is working with a network of pastors and church leaders on the Faith Health Alliance — an effort to increase awareness of a variety of health topics in underserved communities throughout the United States.

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Respected faith leaders can lead to sustainable and accountable health outcomes in communities of color. The church is a cornerstone of community health promotion in underserved communities with a goal to expand into a variety of health issues.

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