Black Health’s Health Equity Summit Event is a student-led event held at Lehman College in collaboration with the City University of New York (CUNY) institutions (Lehman and Hostos Community Colleges). The summit centers around Black Health’s three pillars – education, policy and advocacy – addressing topics ranging from HIV/AIDS, mental health, diabetes, and other health disparities that disproportionately affect Black and Brown Communities.

This podcast episode seeks to share the experience and insights of a peer navigator working in Kitsap County, Washington, to link patients to necessary treatment while facing the interpersonal, psychosocial, and logistical barriers to care that impact these populations.

This podcast examines the significant underrepresentation of women, particularly Black heterosexual women, in HIV prevention and PrEP utilization.