Rate this HBCU Day 48: Meharry Medical College

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Aug 6, 2024

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

Bloomberg gives $600 million to four Black medical schools' endowments

Michael Bloomberg committed $600 million to the endowments of four historically Black medical schools through his organization Bloomberg Philanthropies.

apnews.com

The gifts are among the largest private donations to any historically Black college or university, with $175 million each going to Howard University College of Medicine, Meharry Medical College and Morehouse School of Medicine. Charles Drew University of Medicine & Science will receive $75 million. Xavier University of Louisiana, which is opening a new medical school, will also receive a $5 million grant

Got damn this is massive. Shoutout to Bloomberg for this project

 

[MostReal]

Aug 6, 2024

Bloomberg gives $600 million to four Black medical schools' endowments

Michael Bloomberg committed $600 million to the endowments of four historically Black medical schools through his organization Bloomberg Philanthropies.

apnews.com

The gifts are among the largest private donations to any historically Black college or university, with $175 million each going to Howard University College of Medicine, Meharry Medical College and Morehouse School of Medicine. Charles Drew University of Medicine & Science will receive $75 million. Xavier University of Louisiana, which is opening a new medical school, will also receive a $5 million grant

very much needed for those institutions of medicine, very much appreciative Bloomberg.
tell your friends to drop some off at the HBCU Land grants next, starting with the nations 1st in Alcorn

 

[DrBanneker]

Aug 6, 2024

Bloomberg gives $600 million to four Black medical schools' endowments

Michael Bloomberg committed $600 million to the endowments of four historically Black medical schools through his organization Bloomberg Philanthropies.

apnews.com

The gifts are among the largest private donations to any historically Black college or university, with $175 million each going to Howard University College of Medicine, Meharry Medical College and Morehouse School of Medicine. Charles Drew University of Medicine & Science will receive $75 million. Xavier University of Louisiana, which is opening a new medical school, will also receive a $5 million grant

I wonder if this is to help counter the anti-DEI push or if he just sees it as part of a worthy cause to improve healthcare?

 

[Rekkapryde]

I wonder if this is to help counter the anti-DEI push or if he just sees it as part of a worthy cause to improve healthcare?

Either or is fine with me.

 

[beenz]

my ex sister in law went there. and now she's a anesthesiologist

 

[get these nets]

I wonder if this is to help counter the anti-DEI push or if he just sees it as part of a worthy cause to improve healthcare?

Interesting question. I think it's the latter. He said that Healthcare and Education have been the two areas his philanthropy arm has been most focused on the past few years. In addition to the HBCUs, he's donated hundreds of millions to his alma mater , Johns Hopkins, for medical students.

Now, from the vantage point that he sits, he knows how precarious that "level the playing field" programs were and are, so he's been proactive and intentional over the decades with donations.

 

[Voice of Reason]

Good for them.

 

[Voice of Reason]

Now he needs to advocate for reparations.

 

[MostReal]

I wonder if this is to help counter the anti-DEI push or if he just sees it as part of a worthy cause to improve healthcare?

I actually think it's the former, there's a mass shortage of black doctors especially in the South

 

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Meharry Medical College and South Africa medical school collaboration takes on inequities

Meharry Medical College and Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University are working with Project C.U.R.E. on a first joint health care collaboration.

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