Join the Movement
Advancing Health Equity for Black Men
The John Henry Health Equity Institute is building a national movement grounded in the ideas, evidence, and vision outlined in The John Henry Health Equity Playbook: A Four-Year Health Policy Agenda for Black Men.
This work recognizes a simple truth: improving health outcomes for Black men requires more than clinical care. It demands coordinated action across policy, community, research, and practice to address the systems that shape physical health, mental health, economic stability, and family and community well-being.
Joining the movement means helping translate this framework into sustained, real-world impact.
What This Movement Is About
Inspired by the Playbook, our work advances health equity for Black men across three interconnected pillars:
Physical and Mental
Health
Expanding access to culturally responsive care, addressing chronic disease and mental health inequities, and strengthening pathways into the health professions.
Housing, Education, and Economic Stability
Advancing the foundational conditions that make health possible, including safe housing, educational opportunity, workforce development, and wealth-building pathways.
Community Empowerment and Family Well-Being
Strengthening families, supporting fathers, preventing violence, and ensuring communities have the tools and voice needed to shape policies that affect their lives.
Together, these pillars reflect a comprehensive approach to health equity that is evidence-based, community-informed, and focused on long-term systems change.
How You Can Join the Movement
There is no single way to participate. We invite you to engage in ways that align with your interests, expertise, and capacity.
Stay Connected
Sign up to receive updates, research insights, event announcements, and reflections connected to the John Henry Health Equity Playbook and the Institute’s work.
Engage the Work
Participate in public conversations, listening sessions, briefings, and community-based dialogues that explore the ideas in the Playbook and how they can be applied locally and nationally.
Partner With Us
We collaborate with community-based organizations, research institutions, advocacy groups, faith-based organizations, fraternities, and other partners committed to advancing health equity for Black men.
Contribute Your Expertise
We welcome researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and community leaders whose professional or lived experience can help strengthen the Institute’s work and advance practical solutions.
Support the Work
Your contributions help sustain research, convenings, educational programming, and community engagement efforts that translate the Playbook into action.
What Joining This Movement Means
This movement is grounded in shared values:
A commitment to health equity rooted in evidence and lived experience
A belief that systems change requires collaboration across sectors
A focus on solutions that are durable, accountable, and community-centered
We center Black men while pursuing outcomes that strengthen families, communities, and society as a whole.
Take the Next Step
Join a growing community of individuals and organizations committed to advancing health equity for Black men.
The John Henry Health Equity Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to education, research, and community engagement in pursuit of health equity.
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