Trusted Resources: People & Places
Healthcare providers, researchers, and advocates
Shakir Cannon (Deceased)
Community Advocate Co-Founder
Minority Coalition for Precision Medicine
Albany, New York, United States
Shakir Cannon was a Health Information Advocate and Co-Founder of the Minority Coalition for Precision Medicine (MCPM), an emerging organization dedicated to the disbursement of health information literacy through a parallel education and awareness strategy performed within minority populated regions as determined by US Census data. Shakir was also an internationally recognized Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) patient and advocate who helped educate and spread awareness for SCD both as a public speaker and social media thought leader. Resulting from his lifelong battle with an often debilitating and at times devastating disease, Shakir lived by the motto “Any Day Without Pain Is a Good Day!”
Shakir Cannon’s Obituary:
Shakir Cannon, advocate for minority health, dies
Related Content
-
oneSCDvoice leadershiphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOH6Wzq7...
-
Sickle Cell Community-Wide Support & Empowerment Group (Dec)Sickle Cell Community-Wide Support &...
-
Sickle Cell Partners of the CarolinasSickle Cell Partners of the Carolinas wa...
-
CSC Support Group for KidsThe Cedric Sickle Cell (CSC) Support Gro...
-
How My Parents Set Me Up for Success in Sickle Cell ManagementMy parents knew they were carriers of th...
-
Gainey Raises Awareness About Sickle Cell, Fights For More Fundinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9LuLJ7B...
-
Sickle Cell Community ConsortiumThe Sickle Cell Community Consortium (SC...