Council On Black Health

National black organization partnership roundtable (nbo partnership) is a collaborative effort across seven national black organizations. Through funding from the robert wood johnson foundation, this project explores the potential impact of identifying and pursuing a joint agenda across national organizations to address policies, systems, and environments that impact black health. Accomplishments over the past year include: 1) convening the national partners over a 2-day in-person meeting to develop a collective agenda, including action steps; 2) convening more than 5,000 members across partners organizations to provide education on policies that impact healthcare quality among black americans; and 3) developing and online training program to educate youth and adults about how food environments can impact health outcomes, and strategies that can be implemented to improve nutrition environments in black communities.

The solutions to diabetes in black americans is a national resource core led by the council. The sdba has expanded services to address structural, cultural, and contextual issues that interact to influence diabetes research translation to address systemic causes of diabetes inequities (e.g., racism, bias, discrimination). Aims of this core are to: (1) provide foundational knowledge about how historical oppression and structural racism affect the lives of black americans and current contexts for viable and sustainable interventions on t2dm, obesity and related risk factors; (2) advance the use of systematic approaches to incorporating social determinants of health, cultural, and other contextual influences in t2dm and obesity research with black populations; and (3) increase the capacity of investigators to address critical gaps in diabetes translation research with black populations.