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We’re all in this together—fighting COVID-19
• Helping to accelerate antiviral drugs to combat COVID-19. • Leveraging their science and relationships to help lead the conversation about the coronavirus and how it affects at-risk patients. • Advocating for policies that ensure families nationwide have access to care, frontline health workers have the ability to care for people with medical needs and charitable organizations can
activity. The health and economic crisis is taking a toll on many families, especially those with limited resources. • Filling in the cracks not covered by government services while providing lifesustaining support for underresourced communities. • Increasing support for families living in public housing that are struggling to pay rent due to missed paychecks or layoffs, providing daycare and mental health services for struggling parents, and delivering healthy foods to the elderly and disadvantaged who cannot travel outside. • Working with parents and teachers to keep kids healthy and active while away from school. Source American Heart Association
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continue their life-changing work. • Urging governors and state legislatures to take immediate steps to provide access to the more than 4.4 million more Americans that could have health coverage if their state expanded Medicaid. • Working to ensure the greatest needs of communities are prioritized, including access to care, financial support, proper nourishment, and physical
Angela Bassett, Actress
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Gerald Johnson, AHA
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Jimmy Davies, Founder
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Millions of Americans are infected with COVID19. More than 200,000 have died. People are struggling financially. Health care workers are overwhelmed. Life as we knew it is gone – at least for a while. It’s a dismal picture we’re all trying to navigate together. But there is hope. The American Heart Association (AHA) is working with researchers, medical experts, community leaders, businesses, families and more to reduce the impact of the coronavirus. AHA is dedicating its resources to make a difference by: • Meeting the needs of health care workers dealing with the coronavirus pandemic • Investing a minimum of $2.5 million to investigate the cardiovascular implications of coronavirus.
Sandra Miller Jones
SMSi Healthy Living Solutions, Inc. Founder & CEO
Lafayette Jones
Publisher, Urban Call; SMSi-Urban Call Marketing, Inc. President & CEO
Let’s all do our part! The primary mission of our SMSi companies is to help in the uphill battle to improve the health of our communities, as our recently updated name, SMSi Healthy Living Solutions clearly emphasizes.To help fight COVID-19 medical experts urge us to: • Wear a mask when you leave your home; • Avoid large crowds and stay 6 feet away from others; • Wash your hands for 20 seconds frequently. We are all in this together. Teaching hospitals and communities how to safely and effectively administer CPR during COVID-19, “This incredibly urgent need has only become more urgent during the pandemic.”
Nancy Brown, CEO American Heart Association
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Triad AHA Marketing & Communications
Chef N’Gai pivoted American Heart Association Triad’s traditional Mobile Teaching Kitchen efforts to address mass food relief during the COVID-19 pandemic, partnering with local organizations to cook and deliver meals to nearly 3,000 families each week with Out of the Garden Project, Homegrown Heroes, Wake Forest Baptist Health, and Second Harvest Food Bank partnerships. Also pictured is Kandace Redd with WFMY News 2.
As Chief Diversity Officer for the American Heart Association (AHA), Gerald brings a wealth of experience in building brands Gerald Johnson and driving Executive VP: sales results for Office of Health Equity & Chief great brands Diversity Officer including Lever 2000, Oreo, Chips Ahoy, Dr Pepper, 7-UP, Snapple, Healthy Choice, Orville Redenbacher and Earvin
“Magic” Johnson at fortune 100 companies including Unilever, Nabisco, Cadbury Schweppes, Dr. Pepper/7-UP, ConAgra Foods and Magic Johnson Enterprises. During his tenure he’s held various leadership positions in Marketing, most recently as Chief Marketing Officer for Magic Johnson Enterprises and the Magic Johnson Foundation with accountability for leading marketing across all businesses, as well as driving revenue and sales for Strategic Alliances, Licensing and Fund Raising. An industry leader and sought
out speaker, Gerald currently holds responsibility as Chair of the Sponsorship and Event Marketing Committee for the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) and other advisory board roles. From a volunteer leadership perspective, Gerald is committed to making a difference in communities nationally by serving on committees and boards over the years at The American Heart Association, American Diabetes Association, Muscular Dystrophy Association, Catholic Big Brothers/ Big Sisters and Meals on Wheels.
American Heart Association champions Actress and activist
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Angela Bassett
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Star Jones, former co-host of the talk show “The View,” continues to sound the alarm about heart disease in women. A decade after open heart surgery, Jones remains dedicated to raising awareness of the ways to detect, prevent and treat heart disease, especially among women.
AHA Chief Medical Officer for Prevention
SMSi Healthy Living Solutions Inc. SMSi Founding Chair and CEO: Sandra Miller Jones National Project Manager: Constance Baker Harris National Logistics Manager: Camille Allen Director, Financial Services: Roslyn Hickman
Angela Bassett, who stars in the TV show “9-1-1” and in recent blockbuster movies “Black Panther” and “Mission: Impossible – Fallout,” is AHA spokesperson for the For Your SweetHeart awareness campaign, “Losing my mother, the person who encouraged me to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming an actress, was a wake-up call to start talking about the risk of heart disease with my family members.”
Eduardo Sanchez, M.D., MPH, FAAFP
The American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association expand their landmark Know Diabetes by Heart™ collaboration with a Spanish language campaign. “We want to make sure a language barrier doesn’t keep critical information like protecting your heart, brain and kidneys out of reach,” said Eduardo Sanchez, M.D., MPH, FAAFP, the American Heart Association’s chief medical officer for prevention.
Jimmy Davies Founder, Every.Black
Dr. Cynthia Williams Brown, Triad AHA Board Chair
Every.Black Entrepreneur Podcast Network The Every.Black Entrepreneur Podcast Network is a small business owners coalition using decades of experience to educate and create wealth through entrepreneurship, technology and strategic global networking. The network regularly airs 19 shows weekly reaching thousands of listeners in 30 countries. A weekly podcast, The Healthy Entrepreneur, hosted by Tiffany Parker, interviewed Urban Call Publisher Lafayette Jones and Dr. Cynthia Williams Brown, Chair of the American Heart Association NC Triad Board , on COVID-19 and heart disease. Williams is also Chair Department: Health, P.E. and Sports Studies at WinstonSalem State University. Access the podcast at www.Entrepreneurship. Black.
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