Keeping the Faith with MBK
Southern Steep: Brewing Stronger Community
English - April 27, 2021 16:23 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsSocial Sciences Science Business Non-Profit gnc public health black women equity policy health health department hepatitis hiv lgbtqia+ Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
My Brother’s Keeper, Inc. (MBK) is a private, nonprofit, 501(c) (3) organization with three offices in the Jackson, MS metropolitan area, (headquarters in Ridgeland) and two offices in South Mississippi – Hattiesburg and Gulfport. MBK’s mission is to reduce health disparities throughout the United States by enhancing the health and well-being of minority and marginalized populations through leadership in public and community health practices, collaboration, and partnerships. Learn more about MBK at, https://mbkinc.org/about-us/
Southern Charm:
Cedric Sturdevant is the executive director of Community Health-PIER, which is a new CBO in the Mississippi Delta, whose mission “is to create a platform for rural communities to decrease the vicious cycle of health disparities through education, intervention, and research.” Cedric is an advocate for HIV, working with and training HIV-positive people to be an advocate for themselves and others through a program called AIDSWatch Mississippi. In 2019, Cedric partnered with NASTAD on Ending the HIV Epidemics – https://www.nastad.org/blog/leading-through-epidemics