Hip Hop and Science hit a major health equity milestone as The New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) honored our founders, Dr. Olajide Williams and Doug E. Fresh, with the Rising Leaders Award for their transformative use of music, art and science to deliver positive health behavior change during NYAM's Access Health Gala Celebrating 175 Years of Advancing Health Equity...

Oral health is more important than you might realize. Research increasingly shows that keeping teeth and gums healthy not only helps to reduce gum disease and tooth decay, but it can even control diabetes biomarkers and help people resist infections. When it comes to young people, cavities can also have a significant impact on their social, mental, and emotional wellbeing....

Vaccination, which includes staying up-to-date on booster shots, is critical to reinforcing our immune systems and helping to reduce the impact of COVID-19 – and the Community Immunity: All About the Booster educational video is here to bolster vaccine literacy, confidence and uptake. This new addition to the Community Immunity Vaccine Literacy Rap Anthology, and 8th video in the series, features...

Teens play a critical role in helping to reduce the spread of COVID-19. There are about 25 million young people ages 12-17 in the United States and only 58 percent of them have received the two-dose vaccine series, which is below the national rate of 65 percent and the second lowest vaccination rate of any age group. In Baltimore, Maryland,...

Sugar comes in many forms, is ubiquitous in modern-day foods and beverages, and has over 150 different names, making it difficult to spot. To raise awareness about the hidden sugars in the many foods we eat, we’ve teamed up with AREA 23 to launch Lil Sugar Master of Disguise. Lil Sugar is a fun, educational, engaging, multi-platform nutrition literacy campaign...

With so much new and expanding information about COVID-19 coming our way each day - sometimes multiple times a day - people all over the world are feeling confused. But this is understandable because we are talking about an evolving virus: it changes, it mutates, and it affects us all differently.  So, what can we do? We talk about it,...

COVID-19 cases are on the rise again across much of the United States as the highly contagious Omicron and Delta variants continue to spread. Increasing the rate of vaccination in all communities is critical in order to avoid another prolonged deadly coronavirus surge. Organizations and individuals across the country have helped share this urgent message, building vaccine confidence within their...

Our 2021 Remixing Public Health Gala was nothing short of EPIC! Hundreds of our incredible supporters joined us virtually on October 21st to celebrate the work we have been doing to achieve health equity. Here are our top 10 moments of the night: 1. Doing the “Dougie” is tradition at this point If you’ve been to our previous Galas you...