NEPHTC Student Projects Over the Years
2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18| 2018-19 | 2019-20| 2020-21
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, More
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, More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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, More
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... More
Gabrielle Diaz
Gabrielle Diaz focused on Vaping Education among youth in Southern Connecticut with the Stratford Health Department, serving children from the ages of 12-17 years old. Over the past six months there has been a rapid increase of e-cigarette use and related hospitalizations among youth. Originally intended for adults to reduce... More
Ashley Haluch
Ashley Haluch interned with Rindge Food Pantry to work on improving food security amongst individuals facing food scarcity and poverty. The goal of this internship is to identify the root cause of barriers to health and healthy behaviors. Addressing the needs of the community would then bring closer opportunities for... More
Alicia Manion
Alicia Manion interned with the City of Concords Health and Licensing Office by researching lead prevention initiatives in other cities around the US and collected information on common successful strategies, then proposed ideas for implementation. With her preceptor and other city officials, plans were made according to office feasibility. More
Martina Spain
Martina Spain interned with the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Center for Community Health and Health Equity with a focus on Young parents (under 25) living in Mission Hill, Jamaica Plain, Dorchester, and Roxbury. The goal of the MCH Internship was to provide the Stronger Generations Initiative’s Proud2Parent Program with a... More
Mariana Cohen
Mariana Cohen interned with the Center for Community Health and Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, with a focus on serving pregnant women in underserved neighborhoods in Boston. The aim of the project was to develop a new program that will provide a holistic and continuous care approach to... More
Tammi Compagna
Tammi Compagna interned with Maine SNAP-Ed, where nutrition educators require the proper training, tools, and resources in order to best serve their community. The goal of Tammi's time at Maine SNAP-Ed was to ensure that the nutrition educators’ concerns and needs were heard and addressed throughout the FY2020 training... More
Kylie Elimanco
Kylie Elimanco interned with Bridgeport Prospers, where she worked to help mothers of young children in Bridgeport who are over-burdened and under-resourced who are in need of assistance, either in resources or certain health services. Many mothers were unaware of the significance of the importance of brain development along... More
Jeanette Fornaci
Jeanette Fornaci's goal during her internship with Bridgeport Hospital was to improve child wellbeing, improve healthy weight and increase physical activity in the Greater Bridgeport Region. Over the course of one year there were several activities that I completed for the Yale New Haven Health System. She created monthly flyers... More
Angelika Andrukiewicz
Angelika Andrukiewicz is an MPH student at Sacred Heart University who Interned and worked with the following organizations: Bristol Burlington Health District, Parent and Child Center at Bristol Hospital, Bristol Housing Authority, HRA, and Bristol Community Services. The population being served includes families enrolled in SNAP/WIC programs, low-income families, and... More
Morgan Duffney
Morgan's goal in this internship project at the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) was to develop new resources to support the Health Equity Zones (HEZ) Initiative, as well as draft and disseminate time-sensitive information to support the Department’s goals related to the promotion of health equity in Rhode Island