The Pitt Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH) Center for Minority Health has taken its public health campaign to city neighborhoods by launching the Healthy Black Family Project (HBFP), aimed at preventing diabetes and hypertension in African American neighborhoods in Pittsburgh’s East End. The program was announced Oct. 26 during a news conference at the Kingsley Association Community Center in Pittsburgh’s East Liberty neighborhood.
(2007) Browne, Mario; Lieberman, Lisa D.; Hager, Barbara
The purpose of this project is to promote prostate cancer screening, education about disease risk and the importance of early detection, and survivorship among African American males who frequent African American–owned barber shops.
