Board Members

In 2022, the MCHCA board was engaged by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which has embarked on a nationwide campaign to develop a data base of one million Americans from diverse populations. The goal of the “All of Us Research Program” is to learn how people are affected by what they put in their bodies and how they conduct their lives. The overarching mission is for the NIH to find ways to treat and prevent diseases.

In 2022, MCHCA became the gateway for the Institutional Research Board (IRB), meaning outsiders who are interested in conducting medical research programs in Macon County must have their projects scrutinized by the health care authority. MCHCA Board Chairman, Bernice L. Frazier says, “If an IRB should exist anywhere, it should be here in Tuskegee where a shameful medical experiment took place beginning in the 1930s. We created this IRB against the backdrop of The US Public Service Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male and we have vowed nothing like that will ever happen again in this community.”

Everything the MCHCA does is motivated by concern for the health of Macon County residents. This is why the board encourages everyone to maintain good health practices, including regular checkups by a physician.