Amber Gautam
Amber Gautam is a student at Harvard TH Chan School of Public who is interning with MassHealth ACOs with a focus on Social Determinants of Health.
Naw Ruth Doe
Naw Ruth Doe worked with the Vermont Department of Public Health on a project to help improve health equity by making the data more available to internal and external partners in a more granular form through the subpopulations. This is a part of a movement away from static data reports, towards interactive reports. By moving […]
Monique Terrell
Monique Terrell is a student from Rhode Island College pursuing a Master of Social work who interned with the Rhode Island Department of Health with a focus on Arts and Health. The outcomes from this work provided the Rhode Island Arts and Health Network with baseline information surrounding occurrence, prevalence, and the types of arts […]
Sierra Pettway
Sierra’s goal with this internship was to improve community health and well-being through hiring, purchasing, and investing in local economic impact. This will help to start to break down the barriers and challenges residents of lower economic status face daily, which ultimately have a positive impact on their health and improve health equity. The main […]
Nora Ani Cameron
Nora’s research with Square One found a considerable need for a sexuality education program that addressed the structural inequalities and barriers Springfield community members faced in order to achieve sexual and reproductive freedom, especially amongst the low-income, Latinx community. This included issues of addiction, housing and food insecurity, trauma, state violence, disinvested education systems, and […]
Mackenzie Hoover
Mackenzie is a student at Plymouth State University who interned with the Foundation for Healthy Communities. The focus was on working on addressing social determinants of health through Community Benefit Profiles. As part of the Community Benefit Profile, they researched health disparities in each of the hospital service areas and identifying how each hospital is […]
Ketia Similien
Ketia Similien is using the internship to focus on reducing MCH chronic illness and promoting healthy behaviors. She currently attends Southern Connecticut State University and partnering through Yale’s school of public health.
Kelsey MacKinnon
Kelsey MacKinnon’s goal with the internship project with ONE Neighborhood Builders was to investigate provider perspectives of barriers and facilitators to women’s cancer screening and to ultimately develop system-level recommendations for improving both breast and cervical cancer screening rates among underserved women in RI aged 40 and above with a focus on Black women. Reducing […]
Jazmine Chan
For this internship, Jazmine partnered with Metta, a refugee clinic inside of Lowell Community Health Center to create a program plan for Khmer patients with diabetes. She worked alongside Sarah Bradshaw, NP and Maria Lim, MD. and created a Chronic Disease Self-Management Program Plan for Khmer patients with diabetes in Metta that was embedded in […]
Emily D’Antonio
Emily D’Antonio developed a policy statement for the New Hampshire Public Health Association which speaks to research on the intricacies of food insecurity in the state, and advocates for certain policies, practices, and programs that will improve the health of those in need. Food insecurity is a growing concern both nationally and in New Hampshire […]