Injustices in Healthcare | Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 19, 2020
Hosted by C. Virginia Fields, President and CEO of the National Black Leadership Commission on Health, Inc. (NBLCH); with guests Roslyn Y. Daniels, President and Founder of Black Health Matters; and Dr. Bert Petersen, Director, Breast Surgery Clinic Program at St. Barnabas Hospital, Bronx, NY.
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552
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Health Action TV
Health Action TV is an effort of the National Black Leadership Commission on Health (NBLCH) to further its mission to educate, mobilize, and empower black leaders to meet the challenge of fighting HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C, cardiovascular disease, breast cancer, prostate cancer, sickle cell, diabetes...
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