Miami’s Black Women Health Pioneers

Black women are pioneers in the health field in Miami and historically played critical roles in positive health outcomes for the community while fighting against racism— yet their contributions are largely forgotten or made invisible in the present landscape even while their legacies live on in the form of local community health clinics for the poor and in the descendants of the communities they care for all over Miami-Dade. 

In honor of the invaluable work done by Black women health pioneers of Miami-Dade County like Black midwives and health advocates Doris Ison and Jessie Trice, Black Miami-Dade spotlighted their contributions for Black Women Radicals, a Black feminist collective dedicated to uplifting and centering Black women and gender expansive people’s radical political activism and contributions across the African Diaspora.

TEACH IN

March 26, 2024
Miami-Dade County Public Library
Main Library, Arva Parks McCabe Auditorium

Join us for a community teach-in led by Black Miami-Dade’s founder Nadege Green on the role Black women have played in the public health history of Miami-Dade County. In this teach-in we will discuss Black health and midwives in Miami in the early 1900s; how Miami’s first Black hospital in Overtown, Christian Hospital, was built after the 1918 flu pandemic; the role of Doris Ison in creating an equitable health system in South Miami-Dade and Jessie Trice, a nationally recognized nurse who was instrumental in early frameworks around Black maternal health in Miami and access to care for the poor.