Bianca’s project centered around the role of Telemedicine and relationship with patient use. Telemedicine has been critical during the COVID-19 pandemic in allowing patients to continue seeing their physicians, while avoiding the risks associated with going into the hospital or clinic. Although the pandemic has made this a necessary change, studies have found that telemedicine […]
Ashley Roehrig was on a team in the Pantry2Pantry program which was launched to ensure food insecure populations with high risk for COVID have the food they need. Program partners work across New Haven to roll out this effort. In addition to being a client/resident contact and volunteer systems lead, I will develop a report […]
Anna Mullany believes all women should have the same opportunity and access to vital services during and/or when leaving an abusive relationship. Yet not all women are afforded this opportunity. Rural women in Vermont lack the ability to do so due to two primary factors: location and income. With an explicit focus on women’s isolation, […]
Amelia Bailey is an MPH student from University of Massachusetts Amherst. In this project, Amelia helps to improve health equity by linking people with opioid use disorder to life-saving treatment options. The population interacting with the program are people who are court-involved, meaning successful completion of treatment could also impact their likelihood of jail time […]
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 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 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’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’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 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 […]