student photo Project: New project idea is to write a guide on how to run a student-run clinically oriented health fair
Fellow: Kristina Espinoza
Mentor: Dr. Shopshire, Ms. Younkin

Fellow Bio:
Kristina was raised in Florida by Bolivian parents and has a strong interest in Latin American health care. She hopes to complete a MPH after medical school and says her "dream job" would be as a director of a large public health agency.

Project Description:

Assess the health needs and wants of latino youth, and how these compare to their heath care provider's opinions on these children's needs and wants. This would theoretically lead to a program assessing these needs.

Project Goals:
  1. Survey this year's health fair, write better on for next year's
  2. Focus groups on this years health fair
  3. Interviews with health fair organizers around the city
  4. Research on health fairs
Accomplishments:

  1. Wrote and distributed surveys to participants of the health fair
  2. Crunched data received, prob. need to crunch again with someone who can do it better
  3. Attending focus group with Sharon Younkin, wrote survey for that meeting
Challenges and Solutions:

Writing the survey was difficult, after finding a generous soul to translate it into Spanish, found that the survey was not appropriate for the audience as the data showed apparent confusion with some of the replys to the questions. Focusing without delaying completion-help from my mentor.

Next Steps:
Locus Project Objectives and Key Tasks Target Date for Completion
Focus group 1 Students attain student coordinator feedback 3/14/03
Research more websites of "How to run Health Fairs"present data to mentor 4/10/03
   
Resource Needs:

paper, food for the focus groups, copying for journal articles

Comments:

I hope this is the last change in my project. I still have to talk to my mentor about the newest problem. He is enthusiastic, but does not know yet that there are many resources close to the type I am hoping to write.

Last update:

March 11, 2003

Graduation Requirements Progress Chart
If you complete the requirements outlined below, you will graduate as a LOCUS fellow.

A check indicates the item has been completed.

Completed When What On-line
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Year 1: Beginning of Semester 2 New Project Report Submit Report
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Year 2: Beginning of Semester 1 Project Update Submit Update
  Year 2: Beginning of Semester 2 Project Update Submit Update
  Year 3: Beginning of third year Project Update Submit Update
  Year 4: August of fourth year 2-3 page final summary of project that includes a reflective evaluation of the project process N/A
  Ongoing Participate in program evaluation (written and/or focus group) View Options
  By the end of fourth year Select poster, presentation, paper, creative option or your own idea View Options

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