John Wesley Hatch

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• 2023 Igniting the Flame Award Honoree
  Dr. John W. Hatch is the Honoree of the “Igniting the Flame” Award Ceremony at the 2023 Annual Interfaith Celebration by the Caucus on Public Health and the Faith Community, an APHA-related organization. The celebration is being held from 6:00-8:30pm ET at the APHA meeting in Atlanta. A Zoom link is available: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85925935866?pwd=OGNiQnRONW1NY0dxSmdBREdoODRlQT09
  
• John W. Hatch FaithHealth Lecture Series
• *Interview with Benjamin Money, N.C. Deputy Secretary of Health
  Fifth Annual John W. Hatch FaithHealth Lecture Interview. Recorded Sunday, November 8, 2020 for presentation on December 1. Co-sponsored by FaithHealth Division, Wake Forest Baptist Health and Shaw University Divinity School. Recording (by Denver Dan and Victor Schoenbach) and editing (by M. Anita Page Holmes and Denver Dan, with assistance from O.J. McGhee) courtesy of UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. The interview can also be viewed at https://vimeo.com/483357204.
• A conversation with John Hatch and Ted Parrish, May 30, 2019
  John Hatch arranged for Ted and Jackie Parrish to record a conversation in his living room in May 2019 to talk about Ted's work with housing and tenants rights in Boston. (Video recording.)
• Community health center movement and the Delta Health Center
  John was one of the architects of the Delta Health Center in Mound Bayou, Mississippi
• Durham couple, both in their 90s, are first in line for COVID-19 vaccine
  Josh Shaffer, The News & Observer, January 8, 2021
  At 96, Fledra Hatch rolled up the sleeve of her purple blouse and stared bravely ahead as the needle pushed the long-sought coronavirus vaccine into her left shoulder.
  Ten feet away, her husband, 92-year-old John, set his umbrella on the floor, pulled off his trenchcoat and offered the vaccinator his arm, chatting politely as he felt a small pinch.
  
• Exhibit: Celebrating the Delta Health Center
  Amy LaVertu, February 17, 2015, Hirsh Health Sciences Library, Tufts University (archived webpage courtesy of the Internet Archive WayBack Machine)
• Interview by Fay Mitchell
  Transcript, from September 1991
• Interview by Victor Schoenbach
  This link is a placeholder only. The interview needs editing – and John’s approval – before public posting. I have a link to it in an email sent to Bill Jenkins on 1/11/2014
• Interviews with Robert Korstad
  Recorded in 1992 for the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy, Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy
• John and Fledra Hatch - Looking toward the future
  John W. Hatch came to UNC in 1970 to work at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. Soon, he was enrolled as a doctoral student at UNC’s School of Public Health. He became a professor of health behavior and health education, retiring in 1995 as Kenan Professor emeritus. Now, after other instances of generosity, Hatch and wife Fledra will benefit the School through a gift annuity, which provides long-term scholarship funding for a health behavior student.
• John Hatch at the University of Kentucky Law School
  John Wesley Hatch was the first black student to enroll at the UK Law School in 1948. Due to segregation laws, his professors taught him individually at a separate campus.
• John W. Hatch Papers, 1967-1995
  Finding aid for Collection Number 04801 in the Southern Historical Collection at the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 23.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 4700 items)
  John W. Hatch began teaching at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Public Health in 1971 and retired from UNC-CH as Kenan Professor of Health Education in 1995. Papers of John W. Hatch, documenting his involvement in health education issues in the United States and throughout the world. The collection reflects Hatch's interest in improving health care for underserved populations, including African-Americans. Domestically, the papers document, among other projects, Hatch's work with the Delta Health Center, a nonprofit health organization located in Mound Bayou, Miss., and the Community Health Education and Resources Utilization Project (Black Churches Project), an effort to train lay people to be health resources in their local communities. There is also material relating to sickle cell anemia research. International health projects covered include the UNC-CH School of Public Health's Practical Training in Health Education project in Cameroon, Hatch's work on the World Council of Churches' Christian Medical Commission, and Hatch's travels to South Africa under the aegis of the Progressive Primary Health Care Network.
• National Library of Medicine Exhibit: Community Health | On Common Ground
  Based on an example from South Africa, the Delta Health Center was launched in Mound Bayou, Mississippi in 1967. As well as medical care, staff focused on the social problems that undermined health in the region, such as hunger and unemployment. To ensure that members of the community could participate in decisions about their health and the future of the area, local people served on the board and some joined the clinic staff. Beginning with this clinic and another in Boston, Massachusetts, the network of community health centers has today expanded nationwide.
• Networking Between Agencies and Black Churches: The Lay Health Advisor Model
  Eugenia Eng and John W. Hatch. Prevention in Human Services. 1991;10(1):123-146 Abstract: The question of the possible, proper, or desirable relationships of churches lo health and human service agencies is raised. Identifying, recruiting, and training important members of natural helping networks in the black church, who can serve as “lay health advisors” (LHA) linking and negotiating between people at risk and agency services, is one health intervention strategy for establishing a relationship between formal and informal support systems. As lay people to whom others naturally turn for advice, emotional support, and tangible aid, LHAs provide informal and spontaneous assistance. Found at many levels in a community, these persons are already helping people by virtue of their community roles, occupations, or personality traits. A lay health advisor intervention model conceptualizes the relationships between the social support functions of networks within black congregations and their expected effects on: (1) the behaviors of individuals at risk; (2) the service delivery structures of agencies; and (3) the problem solving capacities of communities. Based on this model, three types of LHA interventions are categorized in accordance with the aim of network member involvement: (1) enhancing the total network within a church; (2) cooperative problem-solving linking networks between churches; and (3) coalition building connecting networks beyond the church. An intervention example for each of these categories is provided, including a description of the target population, support provider), purpose, problems addressed, network characteristics emphasized, activities used, and role of the professional. Important lessons learned from these examples are drawn, with particular emphasis given to the issues and special interests of working with natural helping networks in black congregations.
• Notes on Out In The Rural
  Film about the Delta Health Center founded by H. Jack Geiger in Mound Bayou, Mississippi
• Out in the Rural: A Mississippi Health Center and Its War on Poverty
  In Out in the Rural: A Mississippi Health Center and Its War on Poverty, historian Dr. Thomas J. Ward Jr., professor and chair of the History Department at Spring Hill College (Mobile, Alabama) explores the origins of the community health center movement through the story of the Tufts-Delta Health Center in Mound Bayou, Mississippi. Pioneering activists Dr. H. Jack Geiger, Dr. John W. Hatch, Dr. L.C. Dorsey, Dr. Andrew B. James, and others founded the center in 1966 to improve health and health care for the region’s rural poor, the majority of whom were black sharecroppers and their families who had lived without any medical resources for generations. Dr. Ward explains how these activists, working with grant funds secured by Tufts University from the federal Office of Economic Opportunity, led “a radical assault on both the medical and the social status quo.” Where other works on the health center movement have focused primarily on community health centers in a broader context, Ward instead meticulously documents all the work that went into starting America’s first rural community health center and details how the center, deep in Bolivar County, helped set the blueprint for those that followed.