Page 10 - Campaign Council Meeting - September 2020

Social Injustice and Racial Disparities in health have

amplified our work and our IMPACT!

MSM Awarded $40 million
Grant from HHS
JUNE 23, 2020 - Morehouse School
of Medicine (MSM) was awarded
a new $40 million grant to fight
COVID-19 in racial and ethnic
minority, rural and socially vulnerable communities
Bloomberg Philanthropies Invests $26.3 Million by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
in MSM Medical Students
(HHS) Office of Minority Health (OMH). Read More >
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020 - Morehouse School of Medi-
cine has been awarded $26.3 million from Bloomberg UnitedHealth Group Backs MSM
Philanthropies, the charitable organization founded by COVID-19,
entrepreneur and former New York City Mayor and Sickle Cell Risk Study
Presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg. At MSM, AUGUST 9, 2020 - Minnesota-based UnitedHealth
the funds will be used to reduce medical school loan Group is putting $600,000 toward a new study with
debt for Black students currently enrolled and receiv- Morehouse School of Medicine to determine whether
ing student aid. Read More > carrying the genetic trait that causes sickle cell disease
could put a subset of Black Americans at greater risk
MSM, Gilead Partner to Study Racial Health from COVID-19. Read More >
Inequities Associated with COVID-19
MSM and CDC Announce Partnership
JULY 28, 2020 - Gilead
Sciences and the Satch- JUNE 17, 2020 - The CDC
er Health Leadership Foundation and the Satcher
Institute are working Health Leadership Institute
together to develop a real-time, public-facing and com- at Morehouse School of Medicine announced a part-
prehensive health equity data platform to help address nership to address the health equity implications of the
the impact of COVID-19 and other diseases on com- COVID-19 pandemic. Read More >
munities of color. Read More >
Southern Company Gas Donates $1 million to
SHLI Receives $1 Million Gift from Google MSM Academic Expansion

MAY 28, 2020 - This MAY 26, 2020 - South-
partnership will enable the ern Company Gas and the
real-time COVID-19 collec- Southern Company Gas
tion and study of detailed Charitable Foundation are
demographic data about the communities of color that donating $1 million toward
are being hit hardest by the pandemic. Read More > academic expansion and efforts to provide greater eq-
uity in healthcare led by Morehouse School of Medi-
cine (MSM). Read More >

Christopher S. Taylor, Assistant V.P. & Campaign Director : (404) 752-1907 | : ctaylor@msm.edu |