The Gaston and Porter Health Improvement Center, Inc.

To enable women in mid-life, particularly Black women, to improve their emotional and physical health through personal empowerment and lifestyle changes, thus reducing premature and preventable deaths in this population.

The purpose of GPHIC is to help women, especially African American women, improve their physical and emotional health outcomes. Drs. Gaston and Porter, co-founders and co-directors of GPHIC, have over 80 years of combined experience in:​

• providing services to and treating individuals and families from racially and economically diverse communities;
• providing services to and treating poor and minority families and communities, especially African American women’s mental and physical health;
• conducting research focused on emotional and physical health issues;
• administering local, state, and national programs; and
• developing and implementing community based health program