Health Inequities

BEEM (Black Economic Equity Movement)

Investigators: Sheri A Lippman (MPI/UCSF); Marguerita Lightfoot (MPI/OHSU); Margaret Libby (MPI/MyPath); Emily Arnold (UCSF); Starley Shade (UCSF); Will Dow (UCB) 

Black youth and young adults in the U.S. experience higher levels of poverty, illness, and discrimination than their white peers, with deep systemic social and structural inequities upending their safe and healthy transition to adulthood. The resulting health inequities are many: Black young adults experience high mental health service needs but much less service utilization than their white peers, have higher rates of STI, and have less access to family planning.

The goal of BEEM is to disrupt the social determinants of poverty in order to have a transformative impact on a healthy transition into adulthood. The intervention will provide Black youth (ages 18-24) with a Guaranteed Income and provide access to financial coaching and referral services, and determine the impact of Guaranteed Income and financial services on financial well-being, mental health, and utilization of mental health and sexual and reproductive health services.  

Visit the BEEM Project site.