The United Health Foundation/NMF Diverse Medical Scholars Program
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| Link | Year | Name | Medical School | Project Title | Project Location | Key Outcomes |
| 2017 | Chidimma Acholonu | Morehouse School of Medicine | How Students Run Clinic: A Quality Improvement Project for the Morehouse School of Medicine H.E.A.L. Student-Run Clinic | Morehouse School of Medicine HEAL (Health Equity for All Lives) Student-Run Clinic | Free medical examinations conducted by medical students at Student-Run Clinic. | |
| 2017 | Shantrice Appleby | Morehouse School of Medicine | Reducing Ethno-racial Disparities in Unintended Pregnancy Rates: Provider Perspective | Prevention Research Center: Center of Excellence on Health Disparities, Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine | Identify significant implications that go along with unintended pregnancies in the Black and Latino community. | |
| 2017 | Kwame Awuku | Rutgers, New Jersey Medical School | Project B.E.A.M: Beyond Education Achievement and Medicine | New Jersey Sports & Spine Medicine/Odarah Outreach | Introducing different health topics to at-risk youth throughout Newark, in an interactive way. | |
| 2017 | Anya Bazzell | Morehouse School of Medicine | I Am Woman: A Community Based Nutrition, Obesity and Diabetes Prevention Educational Program for African American Women | Community Voices: Health Care for the Underserved | Sought to address the disconnect between nutrition-related knowledge, attitudes about healthy eating and exercise, and the adoption of behaviors that support improved health. | |
| 2017 | Ebony Caldwell | Georgia Regents University, Medical College of Georgia | (fem)me Unsheltered Homeless Project | Various Atlanta Communities | Aims to meet the feminine hygiene needs of homeless women across the Northeast Georgia area. | |
| 2017 | Nailah Cash-O’Bannon | University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health | Seeing Themselves in Medicine | North Division High School | Increase the number of Milwaukee students successfully graduating high school and academically prepared to enter colleges/universities. By increasing the pipeline, we ultimately hope to increase the number of students entering STEM and public health careers. | |
| 2017 | Jonathan Diah | Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons | Student-Run Free Clinics as a Model for High Quality Care at a Lesser Cost | Columbia Harlem Homeless Medical Partnership (CHHMP) | Free medical examinations conducted by medical students at Student-Run Clinic. | |
| 2017 | Marissa Emadi | University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio | Sex Education at Estrada Achievement Center | Estrada Achievement Center | Designed to target the more economically disadvantaged school district and provide its students with more resources for preventing early pregnancy and STD transmission. | |
| 2017 | Jashalynn German | Morehouse School of Medicine | Being My Best Me | Carrie Steele Pitts Home | To address unique challenges faced by residents at a local children home, in areas such as psychological, educational, emotional, and health. | |
| 2017 | Blen Girmay | New York University College of Medicine | Students Teaching About Real Subjects (STARS) Program: An Expansion | Norman Thomas High School | Sexual health education program for high school students designed to empower participants with increased health awareness. | |
| 2017 | Jasmin Harpe | Weill Cornell Medical College | #HealthyLives 4 Young Minority Professionals | Motivating Action Through Community Health Outreach (MAChO) | To determine the baseline health statuses, mental well being, perceived stress, alcohol consumption, and perceived racism among a group of young, minority professional women of color in addition to disseminating information about healthy eating, meditation, stress management, and coping mechanisms. | |
| 2017 | Jada Harris | Morehouse School of Medicine | Medical Mentors | Jackson Memorial Baptist Church | Medical mentors organizational approach to eliminating healthcare disparities in low-income and underserved communities. | |
| 2017 | Ronald Ikechi | Cooper Medical School Rowan University | Group Facilitation and Coach-Assisted Patient Engagement | Cooper Advanced Care Center, Urban Health Institute | Facilitate discussions pertaining to diabetes care and management including physical activity, dieting, and blood glucose surveillance among UHI diabetes group visit patients. | |
| 2017 | Sandy Jiang | University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine | Methods to Prevent Youth Violence in Underserved Communities through Park-Based Holistic Health After School Programs | Miami Dade Parks and Recreation | An after school program that targets at-risk youths who have either had first offense with the Department of Juvenile Services or identified at risk by their school and/or community. | |
| 2017 | Evesha Kenlyn | Morehouse School of Medicine | Establishing a Dermatological Specialty Clinic at a Primary Care Health Center: A Collaborative Care Model | Good Samaritan Health Center | Establishing a dermatology specialty clinic in a primary care health center. | |
| 2017 | Quentin Loyd | Meharry Medical College School of Medicine | Increasing HIV awareness through community-centered education | Street-Works/MyHouse | Reducing the number of people who become infected with HIV each year through community education, decreasing HIV-associated health inequalities, and boosting the availability of care and cultivating better health outcomes for those with HIV. | |
| 2017 | Karen Mendez | New York Medical College | Hospital-Community Partnerships: Supporting Women at a New Jersey Shelter | St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center and Paterson Task Force: Hilltop Haven and Hilltop Heights Shelters | To create a comprehensive curriculum in a homeless women’s shelter to help residents develop skills that would be useful in their transition to independent living, as well as, to build relationships between institutions that would outlive individual student involvement and continue to benefit the institutions’ shared population. | |
| 2017 | Jelissa MooYin | Meharry Medical College School of Medicine | HIV Prevention in the Homeless Community of Nashville | American Medical Association, Meharry Chapter | To educate homeless people about HIV, resulting in a decrease in the overall prevalence and mortality rate caused by HIV. | |
| 2017 | Justin Okons | Drexel University College of Medicine | Health Literacy Workshop | UU House Outreach | Creating pamphlets and workshops for the elderly to understand medicine management. | |
| 2017 | Ronke Olowojesiku | Georgia Regents University, Medical College of Georgia | Addressing adolescent menstrual health and hygiene education for girls in need: A (fem)me project | Various Atlanta Communities | Pamplet distribution regarding feminine hygiene for homeless women and girls. | |
| 2017 | Chiemeka Onyima | Drexel University College of Medicine | Health Literacy Workshop | UU House Outreach | Workshops to educate the elderly about their medicine management. | |
| 2017 | Chevonne Parris-Skeete | Drexel University College of Medicine | The Black Girl Health Agenda | New Voices Pittsburgh | Initiative designed to amplify and bolster the voices of young Black women, girls, and femmes. | |
| 2017 | Alejandro Rabionet | University of South Florida, Morsani College of Medicine | Skin Cancer Awareness Outreach Program: Year Two | BRIDGE Healthcare Clinic | An educational initiative that has taken a twofold approach towards tackling the developing healthcare disparity of melanoma in Hispanic and African-American populations. | |
| 2017 | Kimyetta Robinson | Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine | Implementing a Drum Circle Program at CamdenForward School | Urban Promise | Reducing bad classroom behavior among students chosen throughout the CamdenForward School (CFS), through the use of music. | |
| 2017 | Jorge Rocha | Rutgers, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School | The Sustainability and Expansion of a Community Project Into The Residency Years | New Brunswick Saturday Scholars Academy: The Mini Medical School Initiative | CASCADE (Creating Access for Students Committed to Addressing Disparities and Equity) will focus on combining mentorship and education to increase interest in medicine in underrepresented (URM) high school and college students. | |
| 2017 | Alfredo Siller Jr. | Medical College of Wisconsin | Developing Pipeline Programs to Diversify Healthcare Professions and improve Healthcare in the Milwaukee Area | James Madison Academic High School/Milwaukee AHEL | To increase the number of minorities that pursue careers in healthcare. | |
| 2017 | Alcha Strane | Morehouse School of Medicine | Examining the Influence of Low Cost Health Care on Colorectal Cancer Screening Among the Medically Underserved | HEALing Community Center | To determine the most acceptable methods to increase awareness of free and low cost medical and health education services, in an effort to increase colorectal screening guideline adherence among medically underserved populations residing in metro-Atlanta. | |
| 2017 | Danyelle Thomas | University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine | Effect of Access to Care in Blood Pressure Management and Medication Adherence | Community Health Center of West Palm Beach | To provide patient education and access to care in the form of a blood pressure monitors, which can have an impact on patient medication adherence. | |
| 2017 | Craig Washington | Meharry Medical College School of Medicine | Healthy Minds Lead to Healthy Bodies | Beech Creek Ministries Center for Imagination | To inspire, inform, and instruct local youth. | |
| 2017 | Veronica Williams | Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine | “Ex-PLISSITly” Thorough: The importance of a consistent sexual history for aging adults and its effects on HIV testing | ActionAids Philadelphia | Discussing sexual activity within the elder population. |