Health Equity Northland

The COVID-19 Needs Assessment data identified not only direct needs around the pandemic but also a broader context of historical mistrust, generational trauma, ongoing systemic racism and a need for more health care professionals from the African Heritage Community. Getting medical information from trusted community sources was a key recommendation that came from the COVID Needs Assessment data. The collaborative aims for Health Equity Northland is to become a place where the Northland African Heritage Community can seek trusted information from trusted community African Heritage healthcare professionals, both during the pandemic and going forward, to facilitate partnerships among community-based organizations and healthcare systems to address longstanding health-care inequities.