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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
Bloomberg Philanthropies Invests $26.3 Million minority, rural and socially vulner-
in MSM Medical Students able communities by the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020 - Morehouse School of Medi- (OMH). Read More >
cine has been awarded $26.3 million from Bloomberg
Philanthropies, the charitable organization founded by
entrepreneur and former New York City Mayor and
Presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg. At MSM,
the funds will be used to reduce medical school loan
debt for Black students currently enrolled and receiv-
ing student aid. Read More > MSM and CDC Announce Partnership
JUNE 17, 2020 - The CDC Foundation and the Satch-
MSM, Gilead Partner to Study Racial Health er Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School
Inequities Associated with COVID-19 of Medicine today announced a partnership to ad-
dress the health equity implications of the COVID-19
JULY 28, 2020 - Gilead pandemic. Support for this program is provided by the
Sciences and the Satch-
er Health Leadership CDC Foundation's COVID-19 emergency response
fund. Read More >
Institute are working
together to develop a real-time, public-facing and com-
prehensive health equity data platform to help address Southern Company Gas Donates $1 million to
the impact of COVID-19 and other diseases on com- MSM Academic Expansion
munities of color. Read More >
MAY 26, 2020 - South-

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

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