Global Black Health Atlas
A public intelligence system for seeing Black health across borders.
The Atlas tracks Black and Afro-descendant population visibility, disease burden, mortality data gaps, and the national systems that decide whether Black life becomes measurable.
Compare countries without erasing category differences.
The console is designed to make public data legible while protecting methodological integrity: race categories are named, mortality readiness is flagged, and non-comparable contexts are not forced.
Race categories are not globally interchangeable.
The Global Black Health Atlas is built around a simple public health rule: no country should be forced into another country’s race classification system. The Atlas names each category, explains what is comparable, and flags what remains pending.
This is why the Atlas treats data gaps as findings. If a country cannot publicly show race-specific mortality or disease burden for Black or Afro-descendant populations, that absence becomes part of the intelligence layer.
A public health intelligence stack for Black communities.
The Atlas can grow from starter profiles into a global intelligence institution: country pages, disease layers, mortality patches, legal-health pathways, and public reports.
Population Visibility
Black, Afro-descendant, African-origin, and related category fields with source-year and comparability notes.
Core layerDisease Burden
Country-level disease signals for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, stroke, mental health, maternal health, and future expansion.
Priority layerMortality Gaps
Race-specific mortality availability, pending extraction flags, not-public fields, and mortality-source notes.
High-value patchRace Data Quality
Grades, source trust, category comparability, update frequency, and public display rules.
Governance layerLaw + Health Pathways
Legal exposure pathways from Refund My Freedom: incarceration, policing, housing, family systems, labor, and surveillance.
Premium layerCommunity Survey Signal
State of Black Data Survey and Black Health Co-OP signals layered into public dashboards and reports.
Platform layerThe public table behind the intelligence product.
These are starter fields for display architecture. Replace placeholder source URLs with official links before public launch. Black mortality percentages remain pending until official race-specific mortality extraction is complete.
| Country | Category Used | Black / Afro % | Frequency | White % | Disease + Black Death Field | Mortality Status | Quality | Source |
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Fund the Black health data infrastructure.
The Global Black Health Atlas is built to grow through country layers, disease layers, mortality extraction, data governance, public reporting, and community-facing translation.
It turns absence into infrastructure.
Black health is often discussed through crisis, but rarely given durable public data infrastructure. The Atlas creates a place where countries, categories, mortality gaps, disease burdens, and law-health pathways can be seen together.
Funders can support a country, disease, dataset, report, public education series, research fellowship, or technical methods expansion.
A public map. A research engine. A fundable data institution.
The Atlas is built to become a signature intelligence product of the I AM Research Institute: source-governed, category-aware, visually premium, and expandable by country, disease, and data layer.
