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Black Beauty Shop Health Outreach Program Headed by Dr. Didra Brown Taylor
The Black Beauty Shop Health Outreach Program is a vehicle for access to heath information, offers free health screenings and education to address the critical lack of services to underserved African American women through Black owned beauty shops across America. The goal of the program is to build alliances with trusted community partners to align health, education and awareness with beauty regimens to address the needs of the African American women in a safe and easily accessible location where personal care is the focus.
The Black Beauty Shop Outreach Program is a grassroots community organization that seeks to train and provide ongoing support to participating salons so that we may bridge the gap in health disparities in our communities.
Mission:
The mission of the Black Beauty Shop Health Outreach Program is to utilize the existing infrastructure that beauty shops provide across the country to educate African-American women about the benefits of adopting healthier lifestyles to decrease the impact of preventable cardiovascular diseases.
About Didra BrownTaylor, PhD, MPH, MA—Founder, Executive Director and Principal Investigator:
Dr. Didra Brown Taylor, Ph.D., MPH has a BA and BS in Black Studies and Biology from the University of the Pacific. She received her Masters in Public Health in Urban Health from Charles Drew University. Dr. Brown Taylor completed her Post-doctoral Fellowship at UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Institute. She received graduate training in multicultural community-clinical psychology and specializes in culturally appropriate community-based research methodology. She is a National Institutes of Health- Health Disparities Research Scholar. For more than 18 years, Dr. Brown Taylor has been a trailblazer in researching issues in barber-shops and beauty-shops, such as the consequences of malt liquor drinking among African American men and the nexus between haircare and exercise practices among African American women.
The focus of her current community-involved research is the Black Beauty Shop Health Outreach Program which conducts health screenings, offers access to healthcare for the uninsured, tests for environmental contaminants and provides healthy hair and nail education programs for African American women. Ultimately, Dr. Brown Taylor wants African American women to “look just as good on the inside as they do on the outside”. She is the recipient of numerous awards including a Public Policy Award for Los Angeles County. She is currently an Assistant Professor, mentor and Principal Investigator of the Black Beautyshop Health Outreach Program at Charles Drew University of Medicine & Science.
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