Society of Black Health Professionals - SBHP

01/13/2022

Happy Spring Semester! Join us next Wednesday at 7pm to catch up. Register to receive Zoom link: https://forms.gle/GCfE614vqDeo9pLc6

10/18/2021

Upcoming event this Thursday! Stop by for a quick conversation and to catch up. Hope to see you there. Meeting ID: 948 3877 1836

04/28/2021

Take some time out of your night tomorrow night and take a break from the stressful semester and send our lovely graduates off to graduation and their future endeavors!

03/31/2021

In case you missed it, curiosity day was a success! Thank you to everyone who helped out and participated. Curiosity Day will return in Spring of 2022 ☺️

03/11/2021

ATTENTION all black and brown pre-health students! SBHP will be hosting Curiosity Day for you to learn more about the health profession programs available at SU and have your questions answered! Current undergraduate and recent graduates welcome!

Saturday, March 27th from 10AM to 12N

Registration is now open: https://forms.gle/r3fTWkYkvLuyo8us6"

02/27/2021

Special Love is an organization based out of Wi******er, VA that supports children with cancer and their families. SBHP is partnering up with Special Love to design virtual activties for the children to do in the comfort of their own home. Please fill out the form below by Monday, March 1st if you would like to participate. Special Love would like to host a planning Zoom to help further develop our ideas. It is highly suggested you attend the planning meeting in order to participate, but if there is a conflcit please contact nking191@su.edu. Form Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeSfIdtbGL6izyKp2Uxxl4fmA1KWTsRo7OjeGUg2dCCQCdmkw/viewform?usp=sf_link

02/15/2021

Henrietta Lacks (August 1, 1920 - October 4, 1951)

Henrietta Lacks had been diagnosed with cervical cancer and was in the process of undergoing treatments for it at John Hopkins in 1951. During a biopsy, a sample of her blood was collected without her knowledge and it was found that her cells could reproduce indefinitely (doubling every 20-24 hours). Her cells were named “HeLa cells” and have played a remarkable role in research around the world. Today, HeLa cells have laid the groundwork for much of modern medicine. They have been at the center of key discoveries in many fields, including cancer, immunology and infectious disease. One of their most recent applications has been in research for vaccines against COVID-19. Henrietta Lacks’ story is one that highlights the many race inequalities that have been built into research and healthcare in the US. Many companies ultimately benefited from research on her cells and none of the profits have been passed along to her family. Additionally, for years after her death, Lacks’ name and personal records were continuously released to the media without the consent of her family.

02/12/2021

Wimberly Edwards, MS, OTR
“She helped to develop the Black Occupational Therapy Caucus in 1974, a support system that encouraged recruitment, retention, equal opportunity, and leadership of occupational therapy practitioners and students of African-American descent, which still exists today. Edwards worked as a clinician, supervisor, and administrator, including Chief of Occupational Therapy at Montefiore Hospital. She then turned her career toward education, co-founding the occupational therapy program at York College in the City University system, where she was a professor for 25 years” (AOTA, 2017)

02/10/2021

Member Spotlight: Domonique Gholson, OT program, 2nd year

Domonique is an active and engaged participant in her program. She started COTAD this year, an organization that advocates for diversity and inclusion in Occupational Therapy. She also serves on the SOTA board and helps mentor other students. Domonique is passionate about the field of OT and making changes. She is leading the efforts needed to help bring representation and diversity to the Divison of Occupational Therapy at Shenandoah University.

02/09/2021

Anarcha Westcott,

A 17-year old enslaved African American woman who was forced to undergo experimental surgery without anesthesia performed by James Marion Sims “father of modern gynecology”. J. Sims performed 30 experimental operations on Anarcha Westcott between 1845-1849 in order to perfect his surgical technique. During these surgeries enslaved women were operated on without anesthesia and “were completely naked and asked to perch on their knees and bend forward onto their elbows so their heads rested on their hands”. Despite this inhumane treatment, by J. Sims is still celebrated in the medical profession as the “father of modern gynecology” and has had many statues built in his name in New York City's Central Park, the South Carolina statehouse and outside his old medical school, Jefferson University, in Philadelphia. “After several years of activism, the Philadelphia statue was moved into storage and the statue in Central Park was removed on April 17, 2018. Its plaque was to be replaced by one that educates the public on the origins of the monument and the controversial, non-consensual medical experiments Sims used on women of color. The names (and histories) of the three known women “whose bodies were used in the name of medical and scientific advancement” by Sims, Lucy, Anarcha and Betsey, were to be recognized on the new plaque.”

02/04/2021

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02/03/2021

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