HBCUHealth is the culturally aware, online community site designed for students in historically black colleges and universities. 

HBCUHealth supports academic success and lifelong wellness by providing students with easy access to knowledge and tools they can use to enhance their health.

Members of the HBCUHealth community share a common culture and similar goals and concerns. HBCUHealth unites students across the country in moderated chat rooms, on electronic forums and blogs, and on video feeds that enable students to access live or prerecorded talks with their peers and health experts.

In addition, each member of HBCUHealth receives a free electronic Personal Health Record (PHR) account. A PHR is a comprehensive collection of a student’s health history that can strengthen the potentially critical link between the student and her or his healthcare team.

Absolutely. Each PHR is individually owned and controlled by a single student. The student can choose to share selected information from his or her PHR with certain healthcare professionals.

With HBCUHealth’s convenient online tools such as health trackers, online medical record storage, portable health information devices, and emergency computer pages, students can monitor, manage, and learn how to improve their health. During medical emergencies, HBCUHealth’s tools can even save lives by getting students’ vital information to campus or local medical teams in time.

HBCUHealth covers a wide array of health topics and is constantly updated. Topics include preventing and treating: 

• Obesity
• High blood pressure
• Diabetes
• Cardiovascular disease
• HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections
• Mental health conditions such as depression, substance abuse, and eating disorders
• Violence—including “date rape” and homicide
• Accidents