JACKSON – To assist attain underserved communities, the MSDH’s Office of Preventive Health and Health Equity has awarded practically $2 million {dollars} in grants to organizations that handle well being disparities and advance well being fairness inside the state.

“What we are seeing is that the burden of disease and illness is on racial and ethnic minority populations and the rural and urban poor, and these communities need help,” stated Victor Sutton, Mississippi State Department of Health’s (MSDH) Chief of Community Health and Clinical Services.

The teams receiving the aggressive grants have been chosen based mostly on their capacity to deal with the numerous limitations to robust well being outcomes, together with language and literacy expertise, confronted by traditionally excluded populations locally.

“A major goal of all the funded projects is to ensure that every resident in the state gets the help and support they deserve,” stated Sutton.

Awardees are:

• Boat People S.O.S, Biloxi
• Central Mississippi Inc., Winona
• El Pueblo, Biloxi
• Fannie Lou Hamer Breast Cancer Foundation, Greenwood
• Jackson State University, Jackson
• Mississippi Immigrants’ Rights Alliance, Jackson
• Mississippi Minority Farmers Alliance, Okolona
• Mom.ME, Jackson
• Operation Shoestring Inc., Jackson
• Refill Jackson Initiative, Jackson
• The Church Triumphant Global, Jackson
• University of Mississippi, Oxford

The mission interval for all awards ends May 14, 2024.