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Black Healthcare & Medical Association

A leading association for Black and African-American healthcare, life science, and medical professionals

The Black Healthcare & Medical Association (BHMA) is a global, independent professional membership organization for Blacks and African Americans in the healthcare and life sciences industries. BHMA is the world's #1 organization focused exclusively on the advancement of Black and African-American professionals (and their supporters) in the biotechnology, healthcare, medical, and pharmaceutical sectors. BHMA is an equity project of the Center for Healthcare Innovation (CHI).

OUR Mission

To promote deeper and broader professional contact, communication, and resource exchange among Blacks and African Americans in the healthcare ecosystem, including executives, entrepreneurs, investors, payers, academics, physicians, researchers, scientists, policymakers, and service professionals.

OUR Vision

To be the world’s leading advocate, voice, and core connector for Blacks and African Americans in healthcare, including within the biomedical, biotechnology, device, health, medical, nanotechnology, and pharmaceutical sectors.

 
 
 

Expertise in Health Equity

WE PROVIDE STAKEHOLDERS A DEEP EXPERTISE AND COMPREHENSIVE KNOWLEDGE OF GLOBAL HEALTH EQUITY

Our team has decades of experience in understanding the complex challenges and opportunities of health equity, which we define as the equal opportunity for all to achieve their highest level of health, regardless of one's socioeconomic status, ethnicity, race, gender identification, sexual orientation, age, neighborhood, income, or any other social determinants. We have a unique approach to health equity. By bringing in the voice of all stakeholders, including patients, providers, pharmaceuticals, payers and policymakers, we achieve a holistic view of health equity. Our thought leadership helps, global inclusion councils, health equity leaders, employee resource groups, and diversity teams understand strategic objectives, including how a focus on health equity enables organizations to achieve key performance metrics.

 
 
 

HOW WE HELP ORGANIZATIONS

  • Provide better care for diverse population

  • Define and explain health disparities as related to key business objectives

  • Understand the importance and impact of vulnerable, underserved, at-risk populations and how they disproportionately drive costs

  • Develop optimal workplace culture and diversity

  • Understand how to recruit, retain, and advance a more diverse employee mix

  • Learn how to optimize business resource groups and global inclusion councils to support core KPIs

  • Increase revenue and expand market penetration

  • Increase revenue from diverse markets and populations to drive the top line

  • Realize how the future of medicine and disruptive innovations impact health equity strategies and priorities including precision medicine, AI, EHR, blockchain, machine learning and other key trends

OUR THOUGHT-LEADERSHIP TEAM SPECIALIZES IN HELPING ORGANIZATIONS UNDERSTAND HEALTH EQUITY THROUGH

  • Benchmarking

  • Customized Thought-Leadership

  • Executive Roundtables

  • On-site Executive Briefings

    • Range from a couple of hours to a few days

  • Sponsored Research

  • Webinars

 
 
 

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