The Institute for African American Health, Inc. was incorporated January 5, 1993. Its founder, Dr. Joseph L. Webster, Sr., envisioned an organization that would work to bring together existing individuals, groups, and organizations in a way that would result in a more directed, effective and efficient approach to providing healthcare to the minority community. He wanted to provide the support that would better enhance the efforts of those already out there working in the fields. His vision for the Institute was not one of competing, but one of networking and focusing energies of existing efforts more clearly.
