I collaborated with Public Health Television (PHTV) between 1998 and 2008 to produce the Urban Cancer Project. PHTV is an independent production company based in Cleveland that specializes in creating and implementing video-based outreach campaigns for underserved populations. We developed and tested a culturally-specific production process with five grants funded by the National Cancer Institute. Learn more…
A major project that I developed and directed at the William Monroe Trotter Institute at UMass/Boston was the Assessment of the Status of African Americans, which involved 61 scholars. This was a counter to a study by the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1984, with $2 million in funding from foundations, the NRC began a study to report on the status of blacks since 1940 and the future status of blacks in the United States. Learn more…