4 Integrative Preventive & Restorative Medicine Programs

Black Catholic Health Research Institute (BaCHRI) is the research arm for our four programs.

Day-to-day programming does not collect data. Once each year, BaCHRI conducts an Institutional Review Board (IRB)–approved study with fully consented, compensated participants to verify impact, improve efficacy, and publish peer-reviewed results. We also host conferences and methods workshops. Explore each program below (links on program pages).

  • Stress Vitals — AI-Built Program (SlimmAI-HRV)
    Community booths and trainings focused on cardiovascular risk: we fuse wearable HRV (time/frequency-domain features) with social-ecological stressors to generate an explainable Stress-Heart Score via SlimmAI-HRV. During IRB cycles, we evaluate AUROC, fairness, and triage impact for cardiometabolic prevention. cardiovascular risk in community settings..

  • SpirArt Museum
    Guided encounters with sacred imagery that help participants reflect on five life stressors (finances, work/school, relationships, neighborhood/community, health). Routine sessions are educational only; during IRB studies, we may pair the practice with optional HRV sensors to examine autonomic calm and resilience
  • God’s Little World
    A traveling “mini-city” where participants run micro-enterprises first as solo owners, then as worker-owned co-ops—experiencing how cooperation can blunt stress. IRB cycles may include FDA-cleared HRV measurement and brief surveys to study stress reduction and cooperative readiness.

  • Image Trafficking International (Advocacy)
    An ethics initiative that helps ministries and institutions audit public images for consent, payment, and time-limited licenses—protecting the dignity of youth and vulnerable adults. We provide takedown assistance, policy templates, and compliance trainings.

Read more on each program page and contact us if you’d like to host or participate in an IRB cycle.

SpirArt Museum™ Free Online Sessions

A 30-minute, gentle art-reflection to reduce stress and lift hope. Choose your focus: Finances, Work/School, Relationships, Neighborhood/Community, or Health. Free to guests, underwritten by sponsors. We don’t collect medical data and we never record.

slimmAI-HRV™

 

AI-Guided Preventive & Restorative Cardiology.

Our SlimmAI-HRV platform merges high-resolution heart-rate variability analytics with explainable AI to surface hidden cardiometabolic stress before disease begins.

Image Trafficking

Faces Aren’t Fundraising Assets

God’s Little World

Heart-Rate Variability Meets Co-operative Economics

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COMMUNITIES TRAINED IN DATA JUSTICE

5%

PARISH PARTNERSHIPS INITIATED

1%

POLICY SHIFTS INFORMED BY OUR RESEARCH

1%

LIVES UPLIFTED BY COOPERATIVE HEALTH MODELS

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“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
– Jeremiah 29:11

MARCIA E. I. UDDOH, MD (Candidate), PhD, MPH, MS, MSW Founder | Missionary

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