Health Care in the Black Community Empowerment, Knowledge, Skills, and Collectivism

Freda Brashears is a PhD candidate and has been a practicing social worker for thirty years, with a private practice in Kansas City, Missouri, while continuing to serve as a volunteer consultant and service provider for the social services program at Second Baptist Church. She is completing the PhD program at the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare, Lawrence, Kansas Edna Comer is an assistant professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut M. Jenise Comer is an associate professor of Social Work at Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg, Missouri Eugene Hughley Jr. is a limited licensed psychologist by the state of Michigan, currently on sabbatical from the State of Michigan Department of Community Health. He is president of Systems for Professional Education, Consultation, Training, Research, and Utilization Management George L. Jones is the associate director for Counseling and Psychological Services at Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina Kathryn Kramer was the director and research scientist of the Psychosocial Research Division of Duke-UNC Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center. She was a clinical assistant professor in the School of Social Work and an adjunct assistant professor of health behavior and health education, School of Public Health, both at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Brenda F. McGadney-Douglass is an associate professor in the School of Social Work and faculty associate at the Institute of Gerontology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan Elijah Mickel is professor and director of the undergraduate social work program at Delaware State University, Dover Johnetta Miner holds an MSc in Nursing from the State University of New York, Brooklyn, New York, and an MPH from Columbia University in New York City. She is currently employed as a women's health nurse practitioner at a family health center in Manhattan, New York Valerie Montgomery-Rice is an associate professor of Medicine and division director of the Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City Kermit B. Nash (deceased January 1998) was the principal investigator of the Psychosocial Research Division of the Duke-UNC Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center. Also, he was professor in the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gloria Richard-Davis is board certified in reproductive endocrinology and infertility (REI) and obstetrics and gynecology. She has over fifteen years of practice experience in women's health Regina K. Tenney is a PhD student in Social Welfare at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. She was formerly an assistant professor at Central Missouri State University Lloyd W. Whyte is currently a clinical social worker in private practice and is president of A Bright Day, Inc.Logan, Sadye Louise is the author of 'Health Care in the Black Community Empowerment, Knowledge, Skills, and Collectivism' with ISBN 9780789004567 and ISBN 0789004569.