Jointly funded by the Rockefeller and Rosenwald Funds, the committee commits to a five-year study of tuberculosis among Black communities, with particular attention on the South. It also launches a study of the health of Black people at historically Black colleges.

The Black-led committee will assert that tuberculosis rates and overall Black health struggles are a result of social conditions and are not inherent to Black people. They call for education and systems that support the improvement of Black life as a strategy to increase health and wellness.