Linda Goler Blount, MPH, is an epidemiologist and president of the Black Women’s Health Imperative, the first national non-profit organization focused on Black women’s health and wellness. Blount has ...

Obesity has long been the leading risk factor for death among Americans — and it’s getting worse. New research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that cases of severe obesity have ...

Linda Goler Blount is the president and CEO of the Black Women’s Health Imperative. Before joining the Imperative, Linda served as the vice president of programmatic impact for the United Way of ...

With Black women’s reproductive rights under attack, Black Women’s Health Imperative (BWHI) issues the following statement on SCOTUS’ decision to preserve access to safe medication abortion: “Black ...

Linda Goler Blount, president and CEO of the Black Women’s Health Imperative, says she grew up with the ability to make choices about her body because her mother’s generation fought for the right to ...

ATLANTA, April 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Black Women's Health Imperative (BWHI) announced today that President Linda Goler Blount will step down from the organization this month, after having led ...

In a recent conversation with the leader of a prominent health insurance organization, I learned the approach to diabetes prevention may be shifting. According to this executive, the company has found ...

Welcome to Part 3 of our three-part McClatchy Virtual Event series - COVID-19 Bending the Curve. “Impact on Health Care Policy” explored the pandemic’s impact on health care policy, lessons still ...

The number of women who died during childbirth or within weeks of giving birth dropped sharply in 2022 after staggering increases during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, new data shows.

The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they created a ...