Community Digital Health
The community digital health (CPDH) project is a three-year research initiative that engages Black communities living in Providence to determine and facilitate their engagement with digital health technologies which allow individuals to access and manage their health information, including medical records, test results, and medication history. The CPDH project seeks to uncover and understand the relationship between digital health technologies and Black communities’ health experiences.
Community Digital Health
The community digital health (CPDH) project is a three-year research initiative that engages Black communities living in Providence to determine and facilitate their engagement with digital health technologies which allow individuals to access and manage their health information, including medical records, test results, and medication history. The CPDH project seeks to uncover and understand the relationship between digital health technologies and Black communities’ health experiences.
What do we mean by “community?”
The community digital health project is grounded in Africana/Black Studies, Black feminist thought and a framework of community as collective action and resolve found in the rich health heritage in Black communities across the city of Providence.
How do we understand and use the word “Black?”
The BHHD lab understands “Black” as an empowering political and cultural category of identity that people of African descent have crafted to supersede the initial conceptualization of Blackness as inferior and the antithesis of whiteness, a privileged racial marker. Our work in the Providence community reflects individuals who both self-identify and are described as African American/Black and persons of African descent.
Why focus on Black communities?
Black communities’ struggles and concerns with access to quality health care is integral to understanding the larger quest for health equity for all people.