National Minority Health Month

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NMHM logo with 2024 theme, Be the Source for Better Health: Improving Health Outcomes Through Our Cultures, Communities, and Connections

Be the Source for Better Health

Improving Health Outcomes Through Our Cultures, Communities, and Connections

April is National Minority Health Month (NMHM), a time to raise awareness about the importance of improving the health of racial and ethnic minority communities and reducing health disparities. Learn more about NMHM.

Join NIMHD, our partners across NIH, and the HHS Office of Minority Health (OMH) to Be the Source for Better Health as we share resources to improve health outcomes through our cultures, communities, and connections.

2024 NIMHD NMHM Events

The Honorable Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., President Emeritus, Morehouse School of Medicine, former U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary, 1989-1993

NIMHD Fireside Chat

With The Honorable Louis W. Sullivan, M.D.
President Emeritus, Morehouse School of Medicine
Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1989-1993

Event conducted April 22, 2024
1:30 – 2:30 p.m. ET

NIH Videocast

NIH Minority Health Walk, Run, Roll 5K

Minority Health 5K Walk, Run, Roll in white letters on blue background. Below: Diagonal hot pink background with white National Minority Health Month logo

Event conducted April 11, 2024
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. ET

Pre-activities: 11:30 a.m.
5K start: 12:00 p.m.

NIH Main Campus
Building 1 Front Lawn (start/finish)

About National Minority Health Month

Celebrated every year in April, National Minority Health Month:

  • Builds awareness about the disproportionate burden of premature death and illness in people from racial and ethnic minority groups.
  • Encourages action through health education, early detection and control of disease complications.

The origin of National Minority Health Month was the 1915 establishment of National Negro Health Week by Booker T. Washington. In 2002, National Minority Health Month received support from the U.S. Congress with a concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 388) that “a National Minority Health and Health Disparities Month should be established to promote educational efforts on the health problems currently facing minorities and other populations experiencing health disparities.” The resolution encouraged “all health organizations and Americans to conduct appropriate programs and activities to promote healthfulness in minority and other communities experiencing health disparities.”


Page updated July 19, 2024