Venton Jones: Working to Close the Health Disparity

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Venton Jones: Working to Close the Health Disparity

The Southern Black Policy and Advocacy Network (SBPAN) founder Venton Jones is working to address the gap in treatment for the southern Black community. Founded in 2018, SBPAN was created by chief executive officer Venton Jones to focus on improving the health, social and economic disparities impacting the southern Black community. Jones started out working in public health where he worked and found that while there was no problem finding Black leadership in public health services, there continued to be an issue with getting communities to understand how they can impact policy (specifically, health care public policy). SBPAN was then

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