Our Story
A Healthier, Happier Me was not built in a boardroom. It was built between a Native American reservation in Alaska and a TV studio in Los Angeles, by a doctor who kept asking the same question: why does access to good health information depend on how much money you have?
AHHM’s innovative, five part program provides interactive health and wellness education to 18-25 year old students. We’ve run sessions at historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) at Morehouse and Clark Atlanta, and brought health education into communities across Los Angeles and Houston, from campus events and resource fairs to street-level conversations.
About the Founder: Dr. Nita Landry, MD, FACOG
After my residency, instead of taking a traditional job, I became a traveling physician. I worked everywhere from Native American reservations in Alaska to clinics across the country, fighting insurance companies to get patients the treatment they needed. At the same time, I was flying back to Los Angeles to co-host The Doctors, an Emmy Award-winning TV show, where the conversations looked nothing like the ones I was having with real patients.
Seeing both worlds made one thing clear. Education is one of the most powerful pieces of the health equity puzzle. Less than 5 cents of every healthcare dollar goes toward prevention. So I decided education was the piece I could own.
I always tell my patients: it is not my job to make the decision for you. It is my job to make sure you are informed enough to make the best decision for yourself. That is the philosophy behind A Healthier, Happier Me, and it is how we break generational cycles of poor health, one campus at a time.
I’m currently earning an Executive MBA at Columbia Business School, building AHHM to run and scale with the same rigor I bring to medicine.
Dr. Nita Landry, MD, FACOG | Board-Certified OB/GYN | Former Co-Host of the Emmy Award-Winning Show The Doctors | Featured on Good Morning America, The Today Show, Women’s Health, US News and World Report, Essence, Cosmopolitan, BET
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"I used to run only if I was being chased. And I used to think that kale was the enemy. Thanks to encouragement from A Healthier, Happier Me, I'm jogging for fun and loving it, and I actually have some kale recipes that I like (gasp!). Kudos! 😄🏃♂️🙌”
Anna G.