Kenny Anderson

Welcome! As a Community Health Representative I'm involved in the areas of Health Promotions, Healthy Community Consultancy, and Health Equity Advocacy.I've been involved in Black Community Health improvement and empowerment for over 30 years to reduce racial heath disparities.

My involvement in Black Community Health began 35 years ago promoting and disseminating the State of Michigan’s first initial Minority Health Report in 1988 titled “Closing the Gap”, educating Pontiac’s African American community on the report’s contents and recommendations.

As a local health advocate I was involved with the State of Michigan first “African American Male Health Initiative” (1997), a statewide task force to address the alarming bad health status of the state’s Black males. As a local member I assessed the health challenges of Black men, provided them with chronic disease prevention education, and advocated for their health issues.

From about 2005 to 2008 I contracted with the Inkster (MI) School District Early on Education Program; created the “Healthy Parent Project” along with developing a curriculum to provide parenting education in health maintenance to Black parents to increase their health awareness and raise their children with healthy habits; hundreds of school district pre-school parents received training and certificates.

In 2017 I developed and implemented the first “African American Heart Disease Reduction Campaign” to reduce high Black heart disease rates in Pontiac (MI) that included collaboration with the Oakland County Health Department and St. James Baptist Church. The initiative provided educational cultural-specific heart disease posters, brochures, flyers, and presentations to Black residents. Collaborated in having a mobile hospital to do blood pressure screenings in the neighborhood to detect hypertension a major risk-factor for heart disease.

During the COVID-19 pandemic I worked with Michigan State Representative Brenda Carter and Stephanie Booth president of the North Oakland Branch of the NAACP in COVID-19 disease prevention. Distributed thousands of protective masks and information to the most vulnerable populations; protective masks were distributed to seniors, the homeless, and residents at low-income housing sites.

Currently, and for the past several years I initiated the African American Health Awareness & Wellness Promotion Association(AAHAWPA) a health promotion campaign to increase Black health literacy through social media.