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Meharry Medical College is a private historically black medical school affiliated with the United Methodist Church and located in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 1876 as the Medical Department of Central Tennessee College , it was the first medical school for African Americans in the South .
Meharry Medical College's new School of Global Health is a milestone for the institution and a significant development for global health education.
Meharry Medical College and Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University are working with Project C.U.R.E. on a first joint health care collaboration.
Black medical schools are training 70% of the Black doctors in the U.S. Now consider that only 5.7% of our nation’s doctors are Black.
Known as Central Tennessee College from 1865 to 1900, Walden University provided education and professional training to African Americans until 1925. Meharry Medical College, established as one of Walden's departments in 1876, was the first medical school in the South for African Americans. In 1915, it was chartered separately and became a ...
Merry L. Lindsey is an American cardiac physiologist. In 2022 she was named the Dean of the School of Graduate Studies at Meharry Medical College. In 2019 she was named the Stokes-Shackleford Professor and Chair of the University of Nebraska Medical Center Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology and the director of the Center for Heart and Vascular Research.
The gift was part of $600 million donation from Bloomberg Philanthropies to four historically Black medical schools. Nashville Meharry Medical College receives $175M gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies
Hildreth is the 12th president and chief executive officer of Meharry Medical College. He is known for his work on HIV/AIDS and was the first African American to hold a full tenured professorship in basic research at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Edward D. Miller calls Hildreth "one of the most influential HIV researchers in the world". [2]