OurHealth Media Network
OurHealth Media Network
Moving Black Health Forward
HEALTH EDUCATION

HEALTH EDUCATION

Educate patients, consumers and employees about preventable health conditions and how to live and stay healthy.

WATCH
VIDEO PRODUCTION

VIDEO PRODUCTION

Videotape events and create engaging, high-quality videos to increase awareness and community outreach.

WATCH
TV PROGRAMMING

TV PROGRAMMING

Use the power of television to engage, entertain and inform viewers about issues that affect their health and daily lives.

WATCH

AT OURHEALTH MEDIA NETWORK, WE CREATE CULTURALLY RELEVANT HEALTH AND WELLNESS VIDEOS.

Our high-quality, professionally produced videos help you transform they way you educate diverse populations, inform communities and engage audiences.
Watch

OUR MISSION

To advance health equity by improving the health of African Americans and empowering them to live healthier lives — one video, one program at a time.

OUR VISION

To be the world’s most trusted content provider on Black health.

ABOUT OURHEALTH MEDIA NETWORK 

Born out of a need to better serve people of color, OurHealth Media Network is a full-service video production company specializing in culturally relevant health and wellness videos for community outreach, broadcast television, streaming media and corporate communications. Our objective is to help our clients tell their stories in the best way possible, by producing high-quality, engaging narratives that resonate with diverse audiences.

FOUNDER

OurHealth Media Network was founded in 2004 by Lillian Preston, the visionary who felt called to address the broad health disparities in society using video and television. Since then, Preston has created, produced, and distributed numerous groundbreaking programs, earning recognition and grants from highly esteemed foundations and supporters for her efficacy in addressing specific needs in the Black community.

Lillian Preston

Founder & CEO

Our Why

RACIAL HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE DISPARITIES

African Americans are the least healthy ethnic group in the United States. Cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and infant mortality may be the most visible causes of death for African Americans, but they do not tell the whole story.

Social determinants of health (SDoH), the conditions in places where people live, learn, work, play and age have a major impact on the health of African Americans and contribute to racial disparities and inequities.

SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH ACCOUNT FOR
80% OF HEALTH OUTCOMES

SDoH-600B

Noonan, A.S., Velasco-Mondragon, H.E. & Wagner, F.A. Improving the health of African Americans in the USA: an overdue opportunity for social justice. Public Health Rev 37, 12 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40985-016-0025-4

  • Poverty — African Americans are the poorest ethnic group in the USA.
    Poverty is highly correlated with poor health outcomes and increased
    morbidity and mortality.
  • Housing — The quality of housing affects health, and African Americans live in some of the country’s lowest quality housing.
  • Location — Where you live is also a health determinant, and African
    Americans live in the poorest neighborhoods with the highest rates of homicide.
  • Transportation — Transportation is often a problem in poor communities, presenting obstacles to accessing health care services, especially preventive care, until emergencies arise.
  • Food Access — Access to healthy foods is also a frequent problem in poor African American  communities. Rates of obesity and diabetes are highest in poor black neighborhoods.
  • Environment — Black people are significantly more likely to reside near
    sources of air pollution. In these neighborhoods, hospitalization for diabetes is increased and there are many adverse pregnancy outcomes.
  • Violence — Violence is also a major determinant of health disparities. It is a major cause of injury, disability, and premature death. Black male adolescents are six times more likely than whites to die of homicide.
  • Incarceration — Approximately 50% of all inmates in US jails and prisons are black. This population also suffers from infectious and chronic disease at rates that are four to ten times higher than for the total population.

Reception and utilization of health information are well-known factors in disease prevention.

OurHealth Media Network provides culturally relevant, trustworthy information from credible sources and is a step towards eliminating disparities and achieving health equity.

WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY

“The problem has been that we lacked the leadership necessary at many different levels - local, state, federal to invest in primary prevention and to ensure we’re focused on creating healthy
conditions in communities.”

Brian D. Smedley, PhD

American Psychological Association

“How is it possible in a nation with the best trained workforce where most providers wake up
every morning intending to do the best for all of their patients, can nonetheless produce a pattern of care that appears to be so discriminatory?”

David R. Williams, MPH, PhD

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

“The health of all Americans has improved over the past several decades but in spite of that, differences in health status between whites and blacks remain. So while we’ve made progress we still need to make more progress to close the gap.”

Louis W. Sullivan, MD             

Former HHS Secretary

“The lie that is often told is that a person’s health condition is their own fault but the fact is we’re not caring for people and providing the kind of care that is needed from the cradle to the grave.”

Rev. William Barber, II

President, Repairers of the Breach

“Racism is the reason, the only reason that we see race associated differences in health outcomes.”

Camara Jones, MD, MPH, PhD

Satcher Health Leadership Institute

“Socioeconomic causes and health disparities have to be addressed. We know that health, socioeconomic and education go hand in hand. If you do better for
education, the health will absolutely get much better.”

Antonia Novello, MD  

Former US Surgeon General

“I think it’s very important for all people, for African Americans in particular, to be aware of health disparities. How it impacts the lives of African Americans because by in-large African Americans suffer from the highest rate of premature morbidity and
mortality in this country.”

Keith Norris, MD, PhD

Geffen School of Medicine - UCLA

“We have to make health
disparities a priority just as environmental justice needs to be a priority if we’re gonna make real change inside of these communities.”

Mustafa Santiago Ali  

National Wildlife Federation

GET IN TOUCH