PHEN Joins With Howard University and Church Partners For DMV Community Rally In June

The Prostate Health Education Network (PHEN), whose mission is to eliminate the African American Prostate Cancer disparity, is holding its DMV (Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia) Prostate Cancer Community Rally across four Saturdays in June 2025, during Men’s Health Month. PHEN will host these events with Howard University Cancer Center and four longstanding DMV Church partners – Reid Temple AME Church, Ebenezer AME Church, Judah Temple A.M.E. Zion Church, and First Baptist Church of Highland Park. Each event will offer free early detection PSA blood screening tests and prostate cancer education.

Black men in Washington, D.C., are three times more likely to die from prostate cancer than white men, according to DC Health, and Maryland’s prostate cancer incidence rate ranks #4 nationally.

The DMV Community Rally will also incorporate paid radio and social media prostate cancer awareness promotions throughout June, using the voices of local leaders. It is expected to reach 1 million people.

“Howard University has a partnership that spans 20 years with PHEN and has collaborated on prostate cancer screenings, educational outreach, and their annual Summit in the Washington D.C. area,” said Dr. Leslie Deane, Professor & Chief, Division of Urology, Department of Surgery. “We’re honored to help lead the screening and educational portions of these major rally events, to end the Black prostate cancer disparity here in the DMV.”

In 2021, PHEN first began the Prostate Cancer Community Rally program. Since then, it has touched more than 23 million people across 15 states via radio-based awareness messages, social media promotional materials, hybrid Town Hall meetings, and community-based prostate cancer awareness events. Find out more here.

You Are Invited to Free Prostate Cancer PSA Screening and Educational Events at These Churches

Rev. Dr. Mark E. Whitlock, Jr.

Pastor

Reid Temple AME Church

11400 Glenn Dale Blvd, Glenn Dale, MD 20769

Saturday, June 7, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm

This Rally event will be hosted with the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Pi Upsilon Lambda Chapter, and the Reid Temple Men’s Ministry.

Ebenezer AME Church

7707 Allentown Rd, Ft. Washington, MD 20744

Saturday, June 14, 10:00 PM - 1:30 PM

This event is in collaboration with Ebenezer’s Health Ministry and Men’s Ministry. PHEN and the AME Church denomination signed a partnership agreement in 2023 under which hundreds of AME churches now partner with PHEN in communities nationwide.

Rev. Dr. Grainger Browning, Jr.

Pastor

Rev. Scot. C. Moore

Pastor

Judah Temple A.M.E. Zion Church

14500 Mount Oak Rd, Mitchellville, MD

Saturday, June 21, 11:00am - 2:00 PM

Earlier this year, PHEN and the A.M.E. Zion Church denomination signed an agreement so A.M.E. Zion congregations and communities worldwide can benefit from the education and awareness opportunities offered by PHEN. This event helps kick off that agreement and will be hosted by Rev. Scot C. Moore, Executive Director of Men of Zion, and Dr. Iyabode Beysolow, Director of Health Ministry, The A.M.E. Zion Church.

First Baptist Church of Highland Park

6801 Sheriff Rd, Hyattsville, MD 20785

Saturday, June 28, Time TBD

PHEN hosted its 2019 award-winning stage play “Daddy’s Boys” at First Baptist Church and will again team up for a full-day prostate cancer educational town hall and screening event covering Early Detection Screening, Understanding Your Treatment Options, Increasing Clinical Trial Participation, and a Community Forum Path Forward Roundtable.

Rev. Dr. Henry P. Davis, III

Pastor

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