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Clinical Trials: The Gateway to Better Healthcare for African-Americans
The National Black Church Initiative (NBCI) is a coalition of 150,000 African-American churches, comprising 27.7 million members, working to eradicate racial disparities in healthcare, technology, education, housing, and the environment. NBCI's mission is to provide critical wellness information to all of its members, congregants, churches, and the public. The National Black Church Initiative's methodology is utilizing faith and sound health science. We also offer our member congregants and the public helpful, science-based tips on how to develop and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
The National Black Church Initiative's purpose is to partner with major organizations and officials whose primary mission is to reduce racial disparities in the variety of areas cited above. NBCI offers faith-based, out-of-the-box, and cutting-edge solutions to stubborn economic and social issues. Credible statistical analysis, science-based strategies and techniques, and effective methods govern NBCI's programs.
Therapeutic Areas of Interest to the African-American and Latino Communities: NBCI Clinical Research Approach
There are thirteen (13) pillars of NBCI Clinical Research Approaches to be used:
- Cardiovascular Diseases/Stroke and
- Hypertension Blood pressure
- Cancer (Liver/ Kidney/ Lung)
- Diabetes
- Blood Diseases
- Genetic Disease ( Sickle Cell)
- Mental health
- Access to Care/ lifestyles/ Selfcare
- Parkinson Disease
- Rare Disease
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Kidney Disease
- Collection of Health Data
A Call for Scientific Papers on Improving Black Health
The National Black Church Initiative is now inviting submissions of scientific papers for its online publication, Enroll Now Magazine. NBCI publishes Enroll Now Magazine online in conjunction with the American Clinical Health Disparities Commission (ACHDC). Enroll Now regularly includes articles by ACHDC members. Yet this is only one part of its mission. The overarching purpose of Enroll Now is to provide a platform for illuminating critical health data and other information for NBCI’s 27.7 million members and the interested public. Enroll Now achieves this by also publishing: scholarly articles focused on curtailing African American mortality and morbidity; editorials on racial health disparities; notices on clinical trials on behalf of our future partners; and views on clinical trials from members of our congregations. This Call for Submissions is for the areas of interest listed below, and papers may have multiple authors. The submission deadline is June 2026. The review panel, composed of NBCI and ACHDC reviewers, will evaluate all submissions. Please submit your papers for review, and all questions, to:
