Every Community Deserves Good Health

Did you know that your zip code can be a predictor of your health? So can your place of birth, where you work and play, your income and education, and a host of other factors – in addition to the choices you make each day about what to eat, when to work out and whether or not to see a doctor. These factors, recognized by public health professionals as “social determinants of health,” are linked to inequities in health and health care (health disparities) among racial and ethnic minorities in America.

Help #SaveOurClinics and #EquipOurClinics

As the founder and CEO of the Fomukong Health Foundation, a nonprofit healthcare foundation dedicated to making a positive impact on the health crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa, I have led this charge by purchasing new and used medical equipment and hospital supplies ALL of which have been donated to various medical facilities on the continent of Africa. Importantly, the Fomukong Health Foundation has engaged in a variety of educational and preventative seminars over the past eleven years in the areas of sexually-transmitted diseases, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, cervical cancer and breast cancer.…
Fomukong Health Foundation Project H.E.A.L.

Project H.E.A.L.

Health equity is an urgent policy priority in health sector reforms in many underdeveloped and underserved communities throughout the world. Project H.E.A.L. (Heath Equity Achievement for Life) works to: Expand community level health services Establish ongoing partnerships to address limited funding and shortage of health professionals and of drugs. Equip provincial hospitals, district hospitals, and/or integrated health care centres in targeted communities. Africa According to The Economist’s 2012 report, The Future of Healthcare in Africa, “the incidence of chronic disease is rising fast, creating a new matrix of challenges for…

Projects

Fomukong Health Foundation, Inc. (FHF, Inc.) is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization that seeks to serve medically underserved populations and communities. FHF, Inc. accomplishes its mission by empowering a community to broaden its access to medical education, healthy-eating education, and access to fresh, nutritious food and the organization supports, through collaborating with community and industry partners, the donation of medical equipment, supplies and resources to health care workers in community clinics. Projects FHF, Inc. has ongoing projects and campaigns that allow you to plant seeds of change in those communities that…

Become an Advocate

  What is Advocacy? Advocacy is the act or process of supporting a cause; in short, it means to speak up, to fight for a cause or plead the case of others who may not be able to do so or who are suffering from an injustice. Advocates seek to influence decisions, within political and economic institutions and social systems. Fomukong Health Foundation practices Health Advocacy, which promotes and encompasses the direct service, to individuals and families, those activities that promote health and access to health care in communities. This…