Keerthi is working with the Allegheny County Health Department to address the county’s high burden of pediatric asthma and racial/geographic outcome disparities through the Asthma Control Project (ACP). The ACP partners with the American Lung Association (ALA) and Women for a Healthy Environment (WHE) to improve pediatric asthma outcomes through community education, advocacy, and home Read More >>
Current Fellows
Christina White 2023-2024
Christina’s project, Good Mood Food, aims to address the interconnected chronic health issues of mental wellbeing and healthy eating. This will be accomplished through a series of workshops that combine various health-promoting skills: coping strategies, guided reflections, and nutritiously accessible meal preparation. The goal is to boost knowledge and familiarity with healthy foods and how to Read More >>
Dorothy Yam 2023-2024
Dorothy’s project focuses on the needs of caregivers for older adults with dementia and other debilitating neurological illnesses. The goal of her project is to address the psychosocial and health issues that burden caregivers. Dorothy will look and connect with current resources and infrastructures that support these caregivers and will also look at the differences Read More >>
Trudy Zou 2023-2024
Trudy’s project, WomEmpowerment, is an Afghan Women’s Empowerment Group. She is working with refugee mothers resettled in Pittsburgh with the Jewish Family Community Services (JFCS). Her project will address chronic disease and health risk behaviors. She will hold a series of classes that focus on topics such as nutrition, exercise, and mental health. Trudy will Read More >>