The funding—which was awarded to the Atlanta-based college by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health—will support Morehouse’s National COVID-19 Resiliency Network in fighting the pandemic in underserved communities.
“A lot of groups of color are suffering with African Americans at the top,” Dr. Dominic H. Mack, who serves as a professor at the Morehouse School of Medicine, told the news outlet.
Howard University opened a free COVID-19 testing site to ensure individuals living in underserved areas have access to adequate testing and resources.
“We want to screen our community neighbors in the areas where there are higher incidents of hypertension, heart disease and diabetes because those pre-existing conditions are linked to the higher incidents of coronavirus that we’ve seen in African American communities,” said Dr. Hugh E. Mighty, who serves as Howard University’s vice president of clinical affairs.
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