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.
Category: Students
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 […]
Elise Mitchell
Elise Mitchell is a MS/MPH student at Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy/School of Medicine. For this internship, she worked with the Rhode Island Public Health Institute with Food on the Move. The findings from this project will be used to evaluate the success of the Food on the Move program at […]
Briana Winstead
Brianna interned with the Rhode Island Department of Health with a focus on Health Equity. Brianna attempts to address health inequities by exploring alternative options to health that do not currently exist in our healthcare system- art and social prescribing. This report is predominantly an exploration of existing literature from other countries. Brianna explores through […]
Yuki Davis
Yuki Davis was engaged in a Health Equity Internship with the Southern Jamaican Plain Health Center contributing to the development of a report and evaluation of a food distribution program for health center clinic patients called Vida Feliz. Yuki Davis is a public health graduate student at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Tana Meyer
Tana Meyer is a Health Science student at Keene State College who participated in an internship with Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, where she focused on a health care-based preventative food pantry. They directly impacted nutritional inequities by re-designing the system of food access and nutritional services for those in greatest need.
Stephanie McCulloch
Stephanie’s Internship with the Rhode Island Public Health Institute focused on expanding SNAP incentives that offer a rebate on fruit and vegetable purchases to grocery retailers may be an effective strategy to reduce food insecurity in RI. As a step towards determining the potential funding source of a statewide intervention, this project analyzed the return […]
Meeghan Doris
This project will improve health equity by educating Community Health Workers (CHWs) on vaccine importance and they will use this knowledge to benefit their communities. They will do this by providing culturally sensitive communication to their community members about vaccines and ways to access them. On October 25th, 2019, Meeghan created a link for an […]