"Community Based Approaches to Disease Prevention"

A Health Disparities Research Lecture

Sponsored by the Office for Institutional Opportunity and the O'Donnell School of Public Health

Speaker:

Joseph E. Ravenell, M.D.
Associate Professor of Population Health and Medicine
Associate Dean for Professional Development
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

About Joseph Ravenell:

Dr. Ravenell received his medical degree from the University of Chicago and completed internal medicine residency training at the University of Pennsylvania. He then obtained advanced training through a fellowship in general internal medicine and clinical epidemiology at Weill Cornell Medical College.

Dr. Ravenell has dedicated his professional career to achieving health equity for minoritized populations through clinical practice and community-based research. His research focuses on community-engaged approaches to improving hypertension-related outcomes in Black men. He has been Principal Investigator on multiple NIH and CDC grant-funded projects to test community-based strategies focused on improving awareness and management of hypertension and improving cancer screening among Black men throughout New York City. This work led directly to a community-based research network of more than 200 community-based sites including churches, barbershops, mosques and soup kitchens throughout New York City that serve Black and Latin individuals. 

Dr. Ravenell has expanded his work from effectiveness research to implementation research, exploring how evidence-based solutions to address hypertension he previously tested can be implemented in real-world settings and circumstances. He currently leads a project to test an intervention led by community health workers to facilitate hypertension prevention among 400 Black men in 22 Black-owned barbershops on the North Shore of Staten Island, New York. 

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