Abigail completed her Social Connectedness Action Team project with Cathedral Square Assisted Living in Burlington, Vermont. “During my internship, I worked with RiseVT to plan a Social Connectedness Program for seniors. Although this program has not been officially launched at the end of my internship, there is a plan in place which we created together. […]
Senyte Pierce completed her project at Health Equity Solutions in Connecticut. “The goal of this internship project was to support HES staff in community engagement to inform their 2022 Legislative agenda. The objective of HES is to advocate policies, programs, and practices that result in equitable access to health care improved health outcomes, and increased […]
Rosemary Raymundo completed her project “First Connections” at Family Services of Rhode Island. “The main objective to the project with the First Connections program was to map the program’s processes and create workflow charts for their enrollment and outreach roles. By doing this we would expect to identify bottleneck areas within these roles and provide […]
Deanna Sarsour completed her project at the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center and focused on the need for culturally competent educational materials for patients. Deanna specifically looked at resources pertaining to self-monitored blood pressure monitors. She says about her project: “The goal of this project was to improve health equity in the East Boston community […]
“The purpose of my project will be to help Partners for World Health better serve the needs of their community by sourcing unused medical equipment from local medical centers for redistribution to individuals, communities, and healthcare facilities in need. I will also be responsible for connecting with clients in low-resource settings to help them better […]
“The goal of this quality improvement project was to review and recommend updated housing assessment questions, identify vulnerable populations through patient data, educate staff on resources to better connect patients to housing support, identify areas for improvement at BMC in regards to partnerships with housing resources, identify resources specifically for patients vulnerable to exclusion by […]
Haley Wood focused on evaluating the program Meals 4 Kids, which is a mobile food market that provides free and fresh foods to children in communities including the rural town of Rochester, NH. To assess the program and identify opportunities for improvement, Haley conducted interviews with the parents/guardians of children who participate in M4K. Haley […]
In this project, Walae examined patient factors that are associated with disparities in the use of violent restraints for agitated patients in the Emergency Department of a safety net-teaching hospital and use these findings to inform an indicated Quality Intervention Plan (QIP)
This project helps to improve health equity by building tools to enable the VTPHA to increase outreach and education to it’s membership across the state of Vermont. These tools will support Public Health professionals across the state better address issues that are directly impacting health equity in communities. The first step was to gain an […]
RIPHI’s Food on the Move is a mobile produce market that aims to reduce disparities in food access for all Rhode Islanders. Food on the Move reduces barriers of cost and geographic access to healthy, culturally relevant fruits and vegetables by bringing produce to diverse communities that face inequity in health outcomes. In addition, Food […]