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From Edgar O. Mandeville, MD & Ruth C. Browne, ScD
Dear Supporters,
At 20, Arthur Ashe became the first black tennis player ever selected to
the US Davis Cup team. While his career was full of spectacular firsts,
Arthur once said “true heroism is rather undramatic.” He founded the
Institute at SUNY Downstate to combat health disparities among people
of color, knowing full well that the social determinants of health extend
beyond the clinical realm, and include intractable day-to-day challenges
posed by poverty and racism.
from what we get, we can make a living.
what we give, however, makes a life.
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Arthur used his talents and celebrity to raise awareness about issues that
impact us all as we try to ensure a civil society for generations to come.
At 20, our two decades’ of experience in what works guides us in staying
both true to our founder’s values and responsive to rapidly changing
conditions. With our partners, we will carry on Arthur’s vision, continuing
to assess where we are, what we have, and what we can do to address
health inequity in the world that faces us now.
Edgar O. Mandeville, MD
CHAIR
Ruth C. Browne, ScD
CEO
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Back cover: HSA students observe a simulated birth at SUNY Downstate Medical Center.
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Two decades’ of
experience in what
works guides us to
stay true to Arthur’s
values and respond
to changing
conditions.
While in nonprofit years 20 is a ripe old age, in people years it is the
threshold of the grown-up world. Stepping into organizational adulthood,
we recognize that increasing health equity through developing effective
replicable models requires a comprehensive integrated approach and
partners from an array of disciplines. In this anniversary annual report,
you will meet the partners we serve who also help design, guide and
implement our work: Health Science Academy scholars and graduates,
community-based organizations that have hosted them as interns, the
neighborhood entrepreneurs who serve as lay health educators, and the
academic health center that continues to serve its 150 year mission of
providing healthcare to immigrant families.
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More than a decade since the Institute of Medicine published the
seminal Sullivan report, most “race associated differences in health outcomes” remain stubbornly unchanged. How will the nation address the
needs of an increasingly diverse population—many of whom are
uninsured—through a healthcare system where only 6% of the workforce
is African American, a number that has shifted only minutely since the first
integrated medical school opened at the turn of the twentieth century?
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ARTHUR ASHE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN HEALTH
RESEARCH/COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAMS
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CURRENT PROGRAMS
ACCESS
This initiative increases access to community health
services for previously incarcerated individuals
and their families. The program is conducted in
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn in barbershops and
beauty salons.
BARBERSHOP TALK WITH BROTHERS
The Institute, in partnership with the SUNY
Downstate Medical Center, developed an HIV/AIDS
program for heterosexual African American men.
The barbershop-based intervention is designed to
reach men in Brooklyn with HIV/AIDS risk-reduction
messages.
COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAMS
Located in multi-ethnic Brooklyn, New York, the
AAIUH collaborates with community members to
design, incubate and replicate neighborhood-based
interventions which address health conditions that
disproportionately affect underserved communities.
CONDOM DISTRIBUTION PROJECT
This HIV/AIDS risk-reduction program is conducted
in non-traditional settings such as barbershops and
beauty salons. The program includes HIV/AIDS education events, distribution of condoms and health
Recognizing the complexity of the economic and
social determinants of health, we partner with
literature within participating venues.
HEART OF A WOMAN PROJECT
The Heart of a Woman (HOW) Project is a salonbased health program designed to address health
issues among women of African descent. The
current initiative is to address cardiovascular disease
(CVD) utilizing a culturally tailored CVD curriculum
to promote heart disease risk-reduction messages to
African American and Afro-Caribbean women.
BROOKLYN HEALTH DISPARITIES CENTER
The Brooklyn Health Disparities Center is a
partnership between the AAIUH, SUNY Downstate
Medical Center and the Brooklyn Borough
President’s Office. The Center’s community
engagement core has conducted a summer
internship program in which high school students
were trained on the social determinants of health,
health disparities and community engagement
research skills. Training sessions are conducted with
community-based organizations to increase their
capacity to conduct community based research.
Funders: Bank of NY Mellon, CDC, Empire
BlueCross BlueShield Foundation, Jacob and
Valeria Langeloth Foundation, NYC-DOHMH, NIH,
Pfizer Helpful Answers
•Ashe’s widow Jeanne
Moutoussamy-Ashe asks close
friend Dr. Edgar Mandeville to
succeed Ashe as Chairman of
AAIUH Board
•First cohort of students from
James Madison High School
participates in the Health
Science Academy with
funding from the Stella and
Charles Guttman Foundation
•AAIUH launches health
promotion programs in
personal care establishments
(beauty salons, barbershops,
tattoo parlors, laundromats)
with programs such as Black
Pearls, Fades, First
Impressions, and A Clean
Bill of Health
•AAIUH hosts the first
Sports Ball: A Black Tie
and Sneakers Gala at the
Pierre Hotel, hosted by
American Express CEO
Kenneth I. Chenault and
raising $250k
•AAIUH receives first
NIH NCI research grant
($1.2m) advancing its
community-based action
research agenda in
behavioral health intervention
by evaluating A Soul Sense
of Beauty
2001
•AAIUH invites beauty and
barbershop proprietors,
media representatives and
local health agencies to join
the Health and Beauty
Council
2000
•AAIUH receives two
capacity-building grants from
Altus One Fund ($250k) and
Independence Bank ($100k)
1999
•The Health Science
Academy graduates its first
cohort of students
1998
•AAIUH co-sponsors a
landmark conference on The
Health of the Haitian Community
(Sante Pou Kominote Ayisyen
An) with the Haitian Physicians
Association and leads a major
networking and discussion
meeting to further the
engagement of churches in
meeting the health needs of
minority communities
1997
•AAIUH establishes
independent 501c3 status and
formalizes partnership with
SUNY Downstate
1996
•AAIUH receives $50k
challenge grant from
American Express Foundation
leveraging grants from NY
Community Trust and Trinity
Church, supporting an HIV
education program for clergy
leadership and parish nurses
in African American and AfroCaribbean churches
1995
•Ashe dies of HIV/AIDS
contracted through a
contaminated blood
transfusion during surgery
1994
•Arthur Ashe establishes
AAIUH at SUNY Downstate
Medical Center with cofounders Rev. Dr. Paul Smith
and Dr. Donald Scherl to
address health equity as a
basic human right
1993
1992
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•AAIUH and SUNY
Downstate launch seminar
series for senior level health
leadership on Health
Disparities in Brooklyn in
response to the Institute of
Medicine’s report Unequal
Treatment: Confronting Racial
and Ethnic Disparities in
Health Care.
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Currently enrolling 181 students, the Academy’s
curriculum aligns with National Science Education
Standards, including: (1) providing students with
clearly stated goals and expectations, (2) conducting
scientific inquiry that offers students opportunities for
experimentation and direct observations, (3)
relating scientific inquiry to social issues and students’
everyday life, and (4) connecting science to other
school subjects, including history and culture.
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organizations to reduce health disparities and
improve outcomes utilizing a model of Community
Health Empowerment (CHE). The CHE model
guides and unifies all of our work by connecting
people to the information, tools and resources
needed to make informed health decisions and to
safeguard and improve the health of their families
and neighborhoods.
Academy activities include dissections and
microscope/slide work, participation in simulation
labs at Kings County Medical Center, observations
of the gross anatomy lab and attending health
science exhibitions. With a two-year grant from the
National Institutes of Health, the Institute introduced
a paid summer internship program in communitybased health disparities research for 100 students
in 2010 and 2011. This program is currently being
replicated in Trinidad and Tobago in partnership
with the University of the West Indies. Summer
programming will continue with the Federal
Department of Health and Human Services HCOPPATH grant supporting 25 students and—with a
three-year grant from the Doris Duke Charitable
Foundation—an additional ten students each year
will participate in clinical research programs under
the supervision of clinical researchers at SUNY
Downstate.
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HEALTH SCIENCE ACADEMY
The Health Science Academy of the Arthur Ashe
Institute for Urban Health is a three-year, collegelevel after school science enrichment program which
offers students of color activities that build their
commitment to careers in health, expands their
vision of the diversity of health careers, fosters their
understanding of the impact of health careers on
their communities, and provides them with the skills
and knowledge to succeed in college. The only
program of its kind in the region, the Academy is
offered in partnership with State University of New
York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. SUNY
Downstate provides laboratory and classroom
space as well as access to other resources, and
encourages terminal degree students to serve as
Academy instructors. Students are in grades 10
through 12 in eleven participating Brooklyn public
and parochial high schools.
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BOARD & STAFF
DONORS
Ruth C. Browne, ScD
CEO
Brignel Camilien
Field Researcher
Catherine Herrera
HSA Program Coordinator
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We thank the following donors for their extraordinary generosity and commitment to the Institute’s
work with cumulative grants and in-kind support of $100,000 or more during our twenty year history.
Altman Foundation
Downstate Medical Center
Novartis Pharmaceuticals
Altus One Foundation
United Hospital Fund
American Express
United States Tennis Association
Ronald McDonald Children’s Charities
American Honda/American Honda Foundation
WellPoint/Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield
AstraZeneca
Centers for Disease Control
Coca-Cola Company
Doral Arrowwood
WellPoint/Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield
The Institute acknowledges the following
benefactors whose assistance supported
our programs in 2011.
FOUNDATIONS
and CORPORATIONS
Altus One Foundation
Forest City Ratner Companies
American Express
GlaxoSmithKline
American Honda Foundation
HBO Sports
Assurant Foundation
Jacob and Valeria Langeloth Foundation
Rose M. Badgeley Residuary Charitable Trust
Macy’s
BNY Mellon
Madison Square Garden
Brooklyn Community Foundation
Morgan Stanley
Coventry Health Care
messages into the community.
National Institutes of Health
HEALTH AND BEAUTY
COUNCIL
Bibi Alli
Bibi’s Unisex Salon
John Atchison
John Atchison
New York Community Trust
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals
State University of New York
Centers for Disease Control
National Institutes of Health
New York City Council Black, Latino and Asian Caucus
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
New York City Department of Youth and Community
Development
State University of New York Downstate Medical Center
It is also with gratitude that the Institute
acknowledges those individuals who
participate in Sports Ball, State
Employees Federated Appeal, USTA US
Open event, and the Institute’s annual
fund campaign.
Jacob and Valeria Langeloth Foundation
PepsiCo
GOVERNMENT
Health Careers Opportunity Program
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Omnicom NY
United States Tennis Association
George Link, Jr. Foundation
Macy’s
•AAIUH co-founds
Brooklyn Health
Disparities Center a
partnership with SUNY
Downstate and the Brooklyn
Borough President’s Office,
funded as one of the NIH
NCMHD Project EXPORT
Centers of Excellence
•Altus One grant establishes
Healthy Families
Brooklyn, a partnership
between AAIUH and Long Island
College Hospital, under
leadership of Rev. Dr. Paul Smith
•AAIUH celebrates the tenth
cohort graduating from the
Health Science Academy
with over 800 participants in
the three-year after school
program, with 99% accepted
to college
•AAIUH launches Project
Access to increase
availability of health care for
formerly incarcerated men in
Bedford-Stuyvesant with
support from the Langloth
Foundation ($299k)
and guidance from an
advisory committee of leading
community-based
organizations addressing
mass incarceration
2010
•The Health Science
Academy three-year
comprehensive evaluation
funded by WellPoint
Foundation ($300k) finds
that 60% of AAIUH academy
graduates study science as
undergraduates, ten times
the national rate for minority
students
2009
•AAIUH advocates for
standardization of culturally
competent and linguistically
relevant health services as
the National Standards on
Culturally and Linguistically
Appropriate Services (CLAS)
is established
•National Health Care
Reform Act is established,
providing federal infrastructure for increasing minority
representation in the healthcare workforce and behavioral
health interventions outside of
clinical settings, such as those
AAIUH develops
•AAIUH partners with the
Brooklyn Health Disparities
Center to design and implement a two-year summer
internship program training
high school students in
research methodology to
complete research projects
with local community-based
organizations and present
their findings to legislators
through the NIH-funded
National Stakeholder Strategy
for Achieving Health Equity
2011–2012
•AAIUH receives W.K.
Kellogg Foundation grant to
create Be the Cure, a
documentary on increasing
minority representation in
medicine that served
as the basis for our Middle
School Career Exploration program, extending
the healthcare workforce
education pipeline back to
sixth grade
•AAIUH replicates its beauty
salon-based health promotion
programs Black Pearls and
Nuestra Belleza for Black
and Latina women in 18 salons
in West and North Philadelphia
with funding from GlaxoSmithKline sponsors ($250k).
2008
•Institute staff publish their
first peer-review article
followed by eight more
articles documenting AAIUH’s
work as best practice models
in urban health
2007
•AAIUH testifies to the
Sullivan Commission on
Diversity in the Healthcare
Workforce and co-founds the
Community Coalition to
Increase Diversity in the
Health Professions with
40 member organizations to
create community groundswell
response to the Commission’s
seminal report, Missing
Persons: Minorities in the
Health Professions
2006
Department of Heath
provides support to develop
the Central Brooklyn Minority
Asthma Partnership led by
the Institute
2005
•The New York State
2004
•The Institute celebrates its
first decade of service
2003
2002
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•AAIUH develops a pilot of
the internship program in
partnership with the University
of the West Indies, Faculty of
Medical Sciences, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago,
the Trinidad and Tobago
Ministry of Education and ten
local nongovernmental organizations seeded by Fulbright
Nexus Regional Scholars
Program for replication
throughout the Caribbean
•NIMHD provides five years
of funding ($2m) to support
a community-engaged
intervention research, policy,
and training agenda for the
AAIUH, SUNY Downstate
and the Brooklyn Borough
President’s Office partnership
through the Brooklyn Health
Disparities Center
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Diane Bailey
Tendrils Hair Salon
Marion Council
Designer Braids and Trade
Simone Cremona
Caramel City Salon
Debbie Deas
Asase Salon
Gerald Deas, MD
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Hermione Fraser
Hermione’s Salon
Angela Banks Jourdain, RN
Queens County Black
Nurses Association
Adika Roberts
STAFF
Playhouse Barbershop
Francis Agbetor
Nelson Urraca
Field Researcher
Nelson’s Barbershop
Merrill Black
Jean Ward
Manager of Curriculum
Breast Cancer Survivor
Development
Patrick Wellington
Humberto Brown
Wellington Hair Spa
Director of Health
The Institute is proud to acknowledge Bettina Willis, RN
Disparities Initiatives and New the leadership of its Health and
Nurse Oncologist (retired)
Constituency Development
Beauty Council in bringing health
LeeAnn Hicks
Manager of Corporate Affairs
John Lewter, PhD
Director of Development
Lakeisha Lubin
Program Coordinator
Deborah Neal
Administrative Assistant
Ese Oghenejobo
HSA Education Coordinator
Angelo Pinto
Program Manager
Nicole Primus
Education Coordinator
Calpurnyia Bonyta Roberts,
PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Mary Valmont, PhD
Associate Director for Health
Science Education
Marilyn Fraser White, MD
Associate Director/Research
and Training
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Bill Shore
Edgar Mandeville, MD (Chair) GlaxoSmithKline
Harlem Hospital
Michael O. Stocker, MD
New
York City Health
Rev. Paul Smith, DMin
&
Hospitals
Corporation
Minister (retired)
Anne
C.
Vladeck
Seth Abraham
Vladeck Waldman Elias
Starship SA, LLP
& Engelhard
JoAnn Bradley, EdD
Jeff
Williams
SUNY Downstate Medical Tennis
Magazine
Center
Kristen
S. Williams
Robin Rosenblum
AstraZeneca
Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield
John Wren
Walter A. Bell
Omnicom
Swiss Re
Brett Wright
Kenneth I. Chenault
Vibe
Magazine NuAmerica
American Express Company
Henry W. Foster, MD
Meharry Medical Center
Professor Emeritus
Edward J. Goldberg
Macy’s
Daisey Holmes
BNY Mellon
John C. LaRosa, MD
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Heidi Kahn Leeds
Korn Ferry
Patricia A. Sampson
Goldman Sachs
Alvin Schragis
Doral Arrowwood Resort
& Conference Center
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The Journey of One
the mission of us all
Culturally competent care, particularly
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The Academy’s multiplier effect builds awareness as
students communicate what they learn to their families and
community and return to the Academy year after year to
volunteer or consult in a variety of roles. Joshua McHugh,
a 2002 graduate is now a third-year medical student at
SUNY Downstate and a neurology instructor for the
Academy where he gained “experience and exposure
often not available to urban students and a way to
inspiring the next generation
Current students, too young to remember Arthur Ashe as
an athlete or a humanitarian, carry his legacy nonetheless. Second-year scholar Janel Clovis was recruited by her
school’s liaison because of her interest in medicine and
her grades. “I liked meeting new people and the hands-on
activities like the dissection. This will help me prepare for
pediatrics. I want to help children in Brooklyn.”
Academy senior Chiduben Nwabueze heard about the
program from her medical science teacher and recognized
that participation would strengthen her college application. “The Academy’s tone and environment was different
than school. It was assumed that you were going to act
more professionally.” Describing her growing awareness of
health disparities over the last three years, Nwabueze said,
“You know about racial tensions, but this shows you how it
works: this system is put in place and you see how it affects
different races, how it affects your own race.”
The Academy’s tone and environment was different
than school. It was assumed that you were going to
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Academy graduate Dr. Julia James remembers growing up
two blocks away. “I was a science geek in high school and
the Academy provided the space to explore and
develop confidence in pursuing my interests.” Rhodes
Scholar, Ph.D. in Public Health and Outreach Coordinator
for the NYC Department of Education, Dr. James says,
“I view basic science as the base of the pyramid of public
health and am now seeking to leverage my scientific
training with experiences and further study in the field
of public health. Ultimately, I plan to work in the field of
global health policy.”
“The Academy provided a more in-depth review of body
systems than I could get at my high school, but the focus
on community service showed that there were other ways
to be involved in preventative health besides being a
doctor,” says 2006 graduate Shonette Cambell, who now
recruits salon owners to be trained as heart health
advocates for the Heart of a Woman campaign.
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when delivered by minority practitioners, demonstrably
improves health outcomes. For the last fifteen years, the
Health Science Academy’s college-level, three-year
curriculum has supplemented the science offerings of
Brooklyn’s under-resourced schools, building institutional
capacity along with individual skill. 800 Brooklyn students
have participated in the after-school science enrichment
program since its launch in 1994.
integrate my interest in science and service. Being an
instructor allowed me to ‘give back’ by encouraging
younger students, while reinforcing my learning as a
medical student.”
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Working with the Institute over
time, we embrace our
responsibility to become
advocates for our customers,
and our community.
salon owner
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Water Always Balances Itself
cultivating trust, leveraging connection
“Local heroes” such as salon owners and barbers are
trained to weave health messages into the trusting rapport
they have with their clients. Modestina Bell of Women’s
Hair Care salon says, “As a stylist, we get people ready for
graduations and weddings, so even though we’re not
in the family, we’re part of the family. So we give
information and advice… a lot of people will talk about
their blood pressure being too high, then the stylist will
say, ‘Maybe you should cut out so much salt.’”
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of whom had been previously incarcerated–were able to
help identify the types of services people needed and
strategies for overcoming barriers. Sharing project findings
with prison discharge planning professionals will assist them
in preparing prisoners for re-entry. Through partnership with
Healthy Families Brooklyn and faith-based CBOs, the
Institute advocates in additional settings such as public
housing, training community-health workers to address
critical disconnects in the health care system.
The train-the-trainer-model nurtures the positive “social
contagion” that improves health decision-making. The
Institute has worked in 300 personal care establishments in
Brooklyn and replicated initiatives in Philadelphia. Participating stylists serve on the Institute’s Health and Beauty Council,
“Because the community informs everything we do from
an advisory board that helps develop, execute and evaluate
design through implementation, we have buy-in from the
community-based health behavior interventions. The United
ground up,” says Institute CEO Dr. Ruth Browne.“Similarly,
Way of New York City funded a curriculum to train stylists to
when academic researchers want community partners, they
deliver HIV/AIDS risk-reduction messages to their customers.
turn to us and we leverage our network.” “It’s innovation
Content was developed through surveys from stylists and
with rigor,” says Tanya Taylor, researcher from the Brooklyn
customers on HIV/AIDS knowledge, attitudes, perceptions
Health Disparities Center. “Developing these relationships
and beliefs, as well as through focus groups with council
is labor intensive,” says Dr. Browne, “however, it gives
members and other stylists.
our model continuity and sustainability because those that
When the Institute received funding from the Langeloth
work with us over time embrace their responsibility to
Foundation to connect formerly incarcerated people to
become advocates for their customers, their families and
health services, an established cadre of barbers–a number
their community.”
Facing page: Stylists are trained to weave health messages into the trusting rapport they have with their clients.
Above: Participating barbers receive awards from the AAIUH in parternship with SUNY Downstate.
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responsibility for their health without an expanded range
of options. From personal care establishments to underresourced middle and high schools, the Institute supports
potential community leaders as messengers and advocates
committed to improving community health, cutting across
class, age and educational level.
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People cannot fully accept
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Looking Forward reframing heroism
Arthur Ashe’s favorite t-shirt read:
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building on success
The Institute replicated Soul Sense of Beauty and Black
Pearls in Philadelphia salons and barbershops. The Institute
is also expanding the educational pipeline for a more
diversified healthcare workforce further back into Brooklyn
middle schools with support from the Honda Foundation.
And, the Institute is extending the school year through
a series of summer institutes including a Doris Duke
Foundation-funded initiative that will pair high school
students with researchers at SUNY Downstate.
Arthur Ashe’s favorite t-shirt read:
Arthur Ashe said, “What sets champions apart from
winners is the desire to leave the game better than they
found it.” In staying true to Ashe’s legacy of drive tempered
by grace, our twenty years of experience helps us target
new partners, new settings and new conditions to enlist in
the process of change, leveraging our funders’ investment
and touching lives both broadly and deeply.
“I am a citizen of the world.”
Facing page: Stylists can inform, encourage and monitor their customers’ progress. Map: Community outreach programs have trained more than 300 hair stylists,
barbers and other individuals in Brooklyn and Philadelphia. Above: Stylists make materials available in their shops, and help customers understand the latest research.
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Health disparities today stem from an even more complex
constellation of social determinants than those in place
during Arthur Ashe’s life. By incubating, evaluating,
documenting and replicating scaleable programs, the
Institute identifies and partners with key stakeholders to
provide robust, multi-sector models that go beyond
clinical settings and can be tailored to various cultures
and regions.
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“I am a citizen of the world.” Not content to be a worldclass athlete, Ashe used his celebrity to take on challenges
abroad and at home, fighting apartheid in South Africa
and health disparities in US urban settings, even as his
own health deteriorated.
Two years ago, NIH funded a summer internship program
with the Brooklyn Health Disparities Center which provided
intensive training in research methodology and health
disparities for 50 high school students, who were then
placed in local community-based organizations to perform
research projects that were presented to local legislators
and decision makers. This program is now being adapted
in Trinidad and Tobago in partnership with the University
of the West Indies, St. Augustine for replication throughout
the Caribbean, as part of Institute CEO Dr. Ruth Browne’s
Fulbright NEXUS fellowship.
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ARTHUR ASHE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN HEALTH
PUBLICATIONS, CONFERENCES, COMMUNITY EDUCATION
AND AWARDS
PUBLICATIONS
“Access Study: Addressing Health Needs among Formerly
Incarcerated Individuals,” American Public Health
Association annual conference, November 2009
Peer-review publications documenting the Institute’s
community-based programming:
“Hair Stylists as Breast Cancer Prevention Lay Health
Advisors for African American and Afro-Caribbean
Woman,” Journal of Health Care for the Poor and
Underserved, 2008
COMMUNITY EDUCATION
Community Luncheon for Brooklyn Health Disparities
Center, May 2008
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“Barbers as Lay Health Advocates: Developing a Prostate
Cancer Curriculum,” Journal of the National Medical
Association, 2009
“Community-Academic Partnerships: Lessons Learned from
Replicating a Salon-based Health Education and
Promotion Program,” in Progress in Community Health
Partnerships: Research, Education and Action, 2009
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“Engaging Minority High School Students as Health
Disparities Interns,” Journal of the National Medical
Association, 2011
“Lessons Learned from Building an Infrastructure for
Community-Based Participatory Research,” International
Public Health Journal, 2011
CONFERENCES
Institute staff has presented at the following local and
national conferences:
True heroism is remarkably
sober, very undramatic. It is
not the urge to surpass all
others at whatever cost, but
the urge to serve others at
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“Health Disparities: Closing the Gap,” sponsored by
the New York State Assembly and AstraZeneca
Pharmaceuticals, September 2008
Healthy Families Workshop for residents of Bronxville
Housing, May 2009
“Non-traditional Approaches to Cancer Disparities” for
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York,
April 2011
“Leveraging Multidisciplinary Relationships” for Morehouse
School of Medicine’s Colloquium: Triangulating on Health
Equity: A Caribbean Colloquium on Best Practice, Puerto
Rico, July 2011
“Utilizing Salon Hair Stylists as Lay Health Advocates to
Deliver Culturally Tailored Heart Health Messages in
Their Community” for American Public Health Association,
Washington, DC, October 2011
“Implementing a Health Disparities Curriculum for Minority
High School Students” for American Public Health
Association, Washington, DC, October 2011
AWARDS and HONORS
Community Organization of the Year, 2009, Public Health
Association of New York City
In 2010, the National Institutes of Health provided support
for a two-year community-based summer research project
which was the first programmatic collaboration between
the Institute’s Health Science Academy and Community
Empowerment Programs.
With a fellowship from the Fulbright NEXUS Regional
Scholars Program, the Institute’s community-based
summer research project began replication in Trinidad
and Tobago in partnership with the University of the West
Indies, St. Augustine.
“Latina Stylists as Lay Health Advocates,” National
Hispanic Medical Association annual conference,
March 2009
“Challenges and Solutions: Closing the Health
Disparities Gap through Community Voices in Action,”
Brooklyn Center for Health Disparities,
May 2009
Health Award, 2011, New York State Association of Black
and Puerto Rican Legislators
Extraordinary Women of Downstate, 2011, SUNY
Downstate Medical Center
“Urban Health Initiatives,” John F. Kennedy School of
Government Black Policy Conference, April 2009
Facing page: Barbers assist in crafting curriculum that effectively addresses their customers’ concerns.
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“Healthy Families Brooklyn: Working with Health
Advocates to Develop a Health Promotion Program for
Residents Living in New York City Housing Authority
Developments” Journal of Community Health, 2011
Healthy Families Workshop for Arab-American Family
Support Center, February 2009
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“Training Community Health Workers to be Advocates for
Health Promotion: Efforts Taken by a Community-based
Organization to Reduce Health Disparities in
Cardiovascular Disease,” Journal of Community Health,
2008
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Financials
2010
Sports Ball
$141,281 $179,788
Government
$815,078 $886,090
Grants & contributions
In-kind contributions
$1,030,475 $630,352
$314,476 $335,925
$21,900 $21,451
Other income
Net assets released
from restrictions
total support & revenue
expenses
2011 2010
$351,266 $430,851
program services
Education & training
Community health
$1,333,602$1,433,282
general management
Administration
total expenses
$367,717 $318,160
$2,052,585 $2,182,293
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$2,323,210 $2,053,606
$3,000,000
$2,500,000
$2,000,000
$1,500,000
$1000,000
$500,000
$0
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Even amid an economic downturn, our income and revenue grew from $1.5 million in 2005 to
$2.3 million in 2011 thanks to the generosity of individuals, corporations, government
agencies, foundations and partnering organizations. Edgar Mandeville, MD (Board Chair)
condensed statement of financial position
current assets
Cash & cash equivalents
Restricted cash
Government contract(s) receivable
Grants & contributions
receivable
Prepaid expenses
& other assets
Net fixed assets
total assets
2011 2010
$616,886 $349,599
$56,184
$55,780
$199,494 $204,530
$6,000
$3,500
liabilities and net assets
aaiuh use of funds
2011 2010
$149,872 $159,746
$19,312 $25,000
$169,184 $184,746
Unrestricted
$212,848 $142,326
■ Education and training programs
Temporarily restricted
$508,618 $308,515
■ Community health progams
Permanently restricted
$55,000 $55,000
$776,466 $505,841
current liabilities
Accounts payable
& accrued expenses
Deferred revenue
total liabilities
net assets
$67,086 —
$945,650 $76,210
$968
$690,587
total net assets
total liabilities & net assets $945,650
$690,587
■ Administration
Our administrative costs, as a percent of revenue, have decreased to 15%, which is remarkable
given our consistent, incremental growth. More revenue is directed toward programming to
empower individuals to address health conditions that unequally affect multi-ethnic communities.
Robin Rosenblum (Board Treasurer)
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2011 condensed statement of financial activities
support and revenue
aaiuh revenue
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Over the years, we have maintained a reliable revenue stream from a variety of sources, including
individuals, corporations, government, foundations and in-kind donations. This mix of support has leveraged
federal research grants that seed our community-engaged approach to policy advocacy, intervention and
training. The partnerships this multi-year funding facilitates allow us to incubate, document and evaluate work
that can be taken to a greater scale, resulting in replicable models that are inclusive, flexible and robust. Ruth C. Browne, ScD (CEO)
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Now as never before our moral, intellectual
and material wealth will depend on the
strength, skills and productivity of our youth.
The success enjoyed by the Institute is due to the commitment of others
who have responded to Arthur Ashe’s vision. Trustees and donors,
organizations and individuals in our communities, local businesses and
churches—these partners and thousands of others have played crucial
roles in growing the Institute as a national model. Starting with twenty students from
a single Brooklyn high school in 1994, we have been joined by students, families and teachers from
eleven schools and today, the academy enrolls 180 students. From our first modest efforts to reach out to
the public to increase awareness of health needs, our community outreach programs have trained more
than 300 hair stylists, barbers and other individuals in Brooklyn and Philadelphia to serve as lay health
educators who weave discussions about health into their daily routines and empower nearly 3,000 individuals a year in their efforts to live healthier lives. From a staff of one, we have attracted a professional
force of seventeen today. And our income and revenue have nearly doubled since 2005 thanks to the
generosity of individuals, foundations, corporations, government agencies and partnering organizations.
But our success is tempered by our awareness of the work that remains to be done. There are more than
80,000 students enrolled in Brooklyn’s 58 public high schools but we reach less than one quarter of 1%
of these students and only 6% of the schools. Moreover, the general health of Brooklyn’s minority
communities is poor, with incidences of cardiovascular disease, HIV and diabetes remaining far above
city and state averages. From what we have accomplished in our first twenty years, it is clear that our
future lies in continuing to inspire others to embrace Arthur’s vision. From this, multi-ethnic urban
communities across the country will all benefit from the services of culturally competent health
professionals and become empowered to respond to gender, race and culture-based disparities in health.
h e l p u s c o n t i n u e a r t h u r a s h e’s v i s i o n
Make a gift to the Institute. Your gift will support
our efforts to improve the health of underserved urban
communities and inspire the next generation of
minority health professionals.
Please visit our website to make an online donation
using your credit card: www.arthurasheinstitute.org
Or mail your check to:
Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health
450 Clarkson Avenue, Box 1232
Brooklyn, NY 11203
You might also consider:
Participating in your employer’s Matching Gift Program
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· Including a bequest to the Institute
· Making a memorial gift in honor of a loved one
The Arthur Ashe Institute is a 501(c)3
non-profit organization and all gifts are
tax-deductible to the extent of the law.
Arthur Ashe photograph by Michael O’Neill. All other photography by Yvonne Albinowski except pages
10 and 11, with photography by Lakeisha Lubin. This annual report was created with a service grant from
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THE PATH AHEAD
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We welcome donations to help us to
support and celebrate Arthur Ashe’s legacy.
If you would like to make a contribution
please contact us at 718-222-5953
or visit us at www.arthurasheinstitute.org