The Black Women's Health Imperative 2020 Impact Report

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NATIONAL HEALTH POLICY AGENDA For the 2020 election season, BWHI released the Black Women Vote: National Health Policy Agenda for 2020-2021. This Agenda addresses the critical health policy issues that impact NATIONAL HEALTH POLICY AGENDA the health and well-being of Black women. It also supports partnerships with policymakers

and other stakeholders to achieve health equity. BWHI released the second edition of its Black Women Vote: National Health Policy Agenda for 2020-2021. The Agenda addresses the critical health policy issues that impact the The Agenda has five pillars, themes that focus on issues within Access to Quality andand health and well-being of Black women and supports partnerships with policymakers Affordable Health Care; Equitable Responses to Public Health Emergencies; other stakeholders to achieve health equity. The Agenda has five pillars that Sufficient focus on Diversity in Clinical and Health Care Delivery Systems; IncreasedResponses Funding toto Support issues within AccessTrials to Quality and Affordable Health Care; Equitable Public Historically Black Colleges and Diversity Universities; and Social Under each pillar, isSystems; a Health Emergencies; Sufficient in Clinical TrialsJustice. and Health Care Delivery thorough list of the to most pressing health issues Black today and withSocial concrete Increased Funding Support Historically Black facing Colleges andwomen Universities; policy recommendations to help move toward permanent solutions. Justice, with concrete policy recommendations to help move toward permanent solutions. 183

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