At the fourth session of the 2024 Prostate Cancer Disparity Summit, PHEN Director of Communications Tomeeka Miller narrated a video presentation celebrating the 20th anniversary of PHEN’s annual summits. This particular presentation focused on the summits from 2020 to 2024. Sixteen years of summits had passed once 2020 rolled around.
“By 2020, PHEN was celebrating 16 years of educating audiences about the African American prostate cancer disparity,” explained Ms. Miller. “That’s 16 years of momentum. Sixteen years of prominence on Capitol Hill. Sixteen years of support from Congressman Gregory Meeks. Sixteen years of dynamic speakers from the medical, congressional, survivor, and pharmaceutical industries. But no one could have predicted March 13, 2020, the day that COVID-19 was declared a national emergency.”
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, PHEN has held virtual summit sessions in September ever since. In the first two years of the pandemic, PHEN’s summit sessions focused on the impact COVID-19 had on the prostate cancer racial disparity in the African American community. Prominent speakers included Dr. J. Jacques Carter from the Harvard Medical School, Dr. Curtis A. Pettaway from the University of Texas, and Dr. Walter Rayford from The Urology Group.
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