Projects & Programs
COVID Black developed small and large-scale projects and programs at the Black Health Heritage Data Lab that addressed health disparities that impact Black diasporic communities. COVID Black projects and programs focused on the following: collecting, visualizing, and curating Black health data and experiences; text and data mining; Black public health communication and information; learning solutions that address health disparities; Black health social networks; mapping Black health and information; archiving Black lived health experiences.
COVID Black Summer Internship
COVID Black offers a unique learning and work experience for college students interested in an internship with a dynamic community-focused health data and information organization. COVID Black’s internship program assists students in becoming competent, ethical, and confident professionals in different health care sectors. We provide experiences and supervision that allow interns to gain knowledge and tools that empower them to work within and with Black communities on a variety of initiatives to combat health disparities and foster wellness. The COVID Black internship program is an integral part of our community of learning and engagement. Our internships help bridge the gap between the academic and working world by providing hands-on experience to interns through supervised training and community engagement.
PHR Training
Health care systems typically lack the time and resources to focus on this issue. COVID Black fills in the gap by teaching health care and community organizations, and patients, themselves, about the importance of accessing personal health records through patient portals and using digital health technologies to achieve health equity.
