The Black Barbershop Health Outreach Program is dedicated to providing essential health resources to African American men. Our vision is for this site to evolve into a portal to access preventive health information in a culturally appropriate way. Because African American men are less likely to have contact with a health care provider and are disproportionately affected by cardiovascular disease as well as prostate cancer, this section should be used to better understand the disease, it's management, prevention and the standard of care when contact is made.
ABOUT DIABETES
ABOUT HYPERTENSION
ABOUT PROSTATE CANCER
African Americans experience a higher incidence of diabetes and have more severe complications as well as more deaths related to diabetes. African American men are disproportionately affected by renal failure and amputation.
Hypertension is the # 1 modifiable risk factor for stroke. Stroke is the 3rd leading cause of death among all African Americans. Black men are twice as likely to die from stroke as Whites.
African American men have the highest prostate cancer occurrence
rates in the world.
About 5 in 100 African American men will eventually die of prostate cancer compared to about 3 in 100 White or Hispanic / Latino men.
ABOUT P.E.P. TALK FOUNDER:
Dr. Stanley Frencher graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor's degree in Biology/Sociology. He specialized in Health and Aging, as well as in Social, Inequality: Race, Class, and Gender. Dr. Frencher earned his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. During medical school, he obtained a Master's degree in Public Health at Columbia University as a Macy's Scholar. Immediately prior to starting residency, he briefly interned on Capitol Hill for Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) working on health-related policy. He is currently the first Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar sponsored by the American College of Surgeons conducting surgical quality of care research at UCLA/RAND, interrupting his general surgery residency training at Yale New Haven Hospital. Now, transitioning to a surgical career in urology, his research interests include understanding patterns of screening and awareness of prostate cancer among minorities within healthcare systems and in community settings. To that end, he has teamed with Dr Releford and the Black Barbershop Health Outreach Program (BBHOP) to initiate an informed dialogue among African American men about the controversies surrounding prostate cancer screening and treatment in the barbershop. Dr Frencher sees himself as a future leader in health both as a producer of rigorous research that informs the decisions of physicians, health care administrator and policymakers; (and most importantly) an advocate for his patients and community.
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