Achieving Results for Black Women

No national organization has been as impactful on Black women’s health or their lived experiences narrative as the Black Women’s Health Imperative.

BWHI is the first and only national non-profit solely dedicated to achieving health equity for Black women in America. Founded in 1983 by Byllye Y. Avery as the National Black Women’s Health Project at a conference on the campus of Spelman College, BWHI has evolved into a nationally recognized organization leading health policy, education, research, knowledge and leadership development, and communications designed to improve the healthy outcomes of Black women. Since it's inception, BWHI has invested over $50 million to preserve and advance the health and wellness of women and girls.

We partner with Black women on their “life-health” journey

Led for the past eight years by President and CEO Linda Goler Blount, MPH, BWHI continues to be dedicated to promoting the physical, mental and spiritual health and well-being of the nation’s 21 million African American women and girls. Elevating the concerns and inequities that impact Black women to the national stage. BWHI’s Vision

All Black women will enjoy optimal health in a society that promotes health equity and social justice.

BWHI Mission

To lead the effort and achieve results that solve the most pressing health issues that affect Black women and girls in the United States. Through investments in evidencebased strategies, we deliver bold new programs and achieve health-promoting policies. As the mission and need for BWHI programs, services, and policy leadership expands, the need to honor our strategic imperative commitments is also amplified. BWHI remains committed to assembling and engaging practitioners, professionals, and community members (nursing, public health, research, public admin, BLM, doulas, and wellness entrepreneurs), advancing work around Black women’s health while providing thought leadership within this space. ACHIEVEMENT HIGHLIGHTS

1. Invested more than $15M in communities across the US in the last 8 years. 2. Touched over 20,000 Black women and families with chronic disease prevention programs. 3. Created an international diabetes prevention training unit. 4. Established a $20M rare disease diversity council. 5. Led introduction of the Sickle Cell

Disease Expansion Act – H.R. 7177. 6. Led national campaigns featuring Mary

J. Blige, Ciara, NFL Players, and the

WNBA. 7. Teamed up with organizations across the country to bring life-saving screenings along with diagnostic follow-up and treatment if needed to underserved women. 8. Spearheaded innovations and transformational research into workplace equity. 9. Announced the BWHI Change Agency— the first-of-its-kind culturally tailored capacity-building designated CDC training entity.