Help Underrepresented Minorities Enter the Health Sciences

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This is an opportunity with a DemocracyLab affiliate project. You can learn more about this project by visiting the link below:

https://www.democracylab.org/index/?section=AboutProject&id=7

There are a vast number of outreach programs throughout the Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho (WWAMI) region striving to bring minorities who are underrepresented in the health care fields toward college level training in the health sciences. However, although it has been shown that outreach programs are most successful when they work together to form a "pipeline", there are not at this point any systematic efforts being done to encourage these programs to work together and take a more coordinated approach. This is the goal of the Pipeline Mapping Project. We hope to collect and distribute the data that will help these programs gain a clearer view of what is happening in their area, identify gaps in programming and find ways to bridge those gaps. We also plan to create opportunities for programs to come together and share their knowledge on how to remove the barriers that underrepresented students face in moving forward with their dreams. Our project will work to map the current landscape of where, how, and at what levels health sciences outreach projects are functioning in both Seattle and the WWAMI region. We will then translate this information onto a user-friendly website/app platform that can be easily accessed by students, volunteers, advisors, and program administrators. Our goal expands beyond data collection. We are also working to create an intentional community network which will sponsor regular Pipeline Summits.

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