Our Founder, President & CEO
Biographical Summary
Norma J. Goodwin, M.D., Founder, President and CEO of Health Power
Norma J. Goodwin, M.D. is Founder, President and CEO of Health Power for Minorities (Health Power), a nationally unique corporation which specializes in customized health communications for multicultural/minority health. Health Power's mission is minority health improvement to reduce their health care burden and society's as a whole. Health Power emphasizes partnering with the public and private sectors to develop and disseminate authoritative, culturally relevant, and user-friendly information for disease prevention, early detection and control.
Dr. Goodwin was Founder, President & CEO of Health Watch Information and Promotion Service, a national non-profit organization for minority health from 1984 to 2002. Partnerships established there included U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., CBS Corporation, Medscape, and National Medical Association. She also directed 6 national conferences, one a satellite videoconference linking 1,750 persons from 800 organizations in 16 cities. Dr. Goodwin is also Founder and President of AMRON Management Consultants, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in health that successfully served more than 100 clients in New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands before creating Health Watch and spinning it off as a non-profit.
Currently Clinical Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine and Community Health at the State University of New York - Health Science Center at Brooklyn and its MPH Program, Dr. Goodwin has served in leadership positions in numerous organizations including the American Public Health Association, National Medical Association, National Association of Health Services Executives, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, New York Heart Association, American Red Cross of Greater New York, and Atlanta University Center; and as an advisor to CDC and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Faculty positions were also held at Columbia University and Howard University School of Business and Public Administration.
Dr. Goodwin has authored/co-authored more than 60 publications, plus regular columns in the NAACP's CRISIS magazine and National Baptist Convention of the USA's Home Mission Journal. Media citations/participation includes New York Times, New York City's other three dailies, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Medical Herald, New York Amsterdam News, El Diario, Essence Magazine, Everybody's Magazine, CNN, PBS, WABC and numerous radio stations. She has been a key speaker nationally and abroad and a subject of many biographical works including Who's Who in Health Care, The World's Who's Who of Women, Who's Who Among Black Americans, Who's Who in the East, Two Thousand Women of Achievement (worldwide), and International Who's Who of Community Service.
Dr. Goodwin earned her B.S. degree from Virginia State University and her M.D. degree from the Medical College of Virginia.