The following Student Groups in the School of Medicine are service-based. Learn more about each organization here. Available contact information for organizations can be found below.
Asian Pacific American Medical Student Assocation (APAMSA)
Bienestar Baltimore
Biomedical Scholars Association (BSA)
Bukavu Action Team
Community Care Initiative (CCI Health Fair)
Empower
Incentive Mentoring Program
Intensive Primary Care Clinic Big Sibs/Little Sibs
Pediatric Oncology Program: Students in Childrens' Life Experiences (POPSICLE)
Supporting Hospitals Abroad with Resources and Equipment (SHARE)
Student National Medical Associaton including Community Adolescent Sex Education (CASE), Employee Appreciation Banquet, Health Professions Recruitment Exposure Programs (HPREP), Minority Association of Pre-Medical Students (MAPS)]
Tri-Harder
Type for Life
Wolfe Street Workforce
The Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association (APAMSA) is a national organization that aims to address health issues important to Asians and Asian Pacific Americans. The Johns Hopkins chapter serves primarily medical students of the JHUSOM although we welcome involvement from nursing, public health, and other students. Our mission is to unite students interested in the health issues that affect Asian Americans so that we have a strong, collective and public voice. We are interested in directly promoting the well-being of the Asian community through service, as well as helping health care workers who serve these communities understand how to care for the patients in a culturally sensitive manner. APAMSA provides a forum for APA medical students and faculty to meet, exchange information and experiences, and develop professionally. National APAMSA goals include Hepatitis B education and immunization, and bone marrow donor registration. The local chapter offers unique opportunities such as blood pressure screenings, medical Chinese classes, and various social and cultural events.
Contacts: Wendy Ying, wying1@jhmi.edu and Yishan Cheng, ycheng31@jhmi.edu
For more information, visit our website: www.jhu.edu/~apamsa/index.htm
Bienestar Baltimore is a student-run organization comprised of volunteers from Schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing. Originally named Program Salud, the organization began in 2006, as a pilot tuberculosis screening program. Bienestar has since expanded its services to respond to emerging needs of Baltimore’s Latino population. Bienestar now offers a variety of health screening, health education, and health promotion programs. Our organization includes a base of approximately 60 committed volunteers from the Schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing.
Contact: Carla Williams, Volunteer Coordinator, cwill171@jhmi.edu.
Biomedical Scholars Association (BSA) at the Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health is a tri-school organization dedicated to providing a support system for every scholar who considers him or herself a minority within the Hopkins community, promoting the academic and professional success of said scholars, enhancing minority scholar recruitment to and retention within the Hopkins community, providing a network for career development and advancement within the scientific community, and serving our immediate community through volunteerism. We are currently serving the community through science mentoring at Dunbar High School and we volunteer regularly at Moveable Feast.
Contact: Nene Kalu, bsa@jhmi.edu
Go to BSA, for more information.
, the surrounding area and throughout the United States about ongoing conflicts and humanitarian crisis in the Congo. They also work with national and local organizations to gather medical supplies and educational materials to be sent to the Bukavu Reference Hospital, and their associated medical school, the Catholic University of Bukavu's School of Medicine. The group is a tri-school group and includes students from the SOM and SON.
Contact: Megan Rybarczyk, mrybarc1@jhmi.edu.
The Community Care Initiative (CCI) is East Baltimore’s largest and longest running health fair, thriving on its thirteenth year. Each spring the CCI Health Fair, hosted by Israel Baptist Church, unites East Baltimore and the surrounding community with current and future health providers and professionals. Last year, a group of 12 core volunteers and over 80 one-time volunteers arranged and implemented the entire fair, which reached over 250 community members. Last year, more than 20 local, state, and national health organizations such as free clinics, non-profit and government-run insurance groups, disease-based advocacy groups, and representatives of housing, employment, and legal agencies were in attendance. Some of the organizations represented in the past included Baltimore Health Access, Teen Health, Cancer Awareness, the Baltimore City Health Department, and the Office of Congressman Cummings. In addition to reaching out to many local community members, CCI has partnered with the Mattie B. Uzzle Outreach Center to provide basic health and hygiene supplies to a group of local homeless mothers and their children.
Contacts: Mariyam Faiz, mfaiz1@jhmi.edu and Krishna Juluri, kjuluri@jhmi.edu
Empower wants to provide middle school students with a violence-prevention curriculum organized around principles of stress relief, communication, and wellness (the curriculum has already been used in somewhat similar programs elsewhere in Maryland). Empower works with Stadium, Diggs-Johnson, Hamilton, and Mount Royal Middle Schools. Challenge! (a program at UMMS Dept of Pediatrics) provides training time and materials.
Contacts: Tim Zeffiro, Pres, zeffiro@jhmi.edu; Robyn Foreman, VP, rdforema@jhsph.edu; or Ryan Houk, Marketing, rhouk@jhmi.edu.
The Incentive Mentoring Program fosters the academic and personal growth of students at Dunbar High School. Volunteers provide after-school tutoring for the students and, in turn, the students design and participate in monthly community service projects to benefit others. In addition, there are quarterly field trips to build a sense of teamwork and camaraderie. IMP meets every Monday and Tuesday from 3:15pm - 6pm in the Dunbar High School library. Dinner is provided for the students and volunteers. For more information, please email information@incentivementoringprogram.org. For additional information, visit our website: www.incentivementoringprogram.org.
The HIV Big Buddy/Little Buddy Program is a unique student-run group that partners students with children who've been infected with HIV from birth, in collaboration with the Harriet Lane/IPC Clinic here at Hopkins. We provide dedicated friendship and mentoring to these children, most of whom are in great need of consistent support, compassion and role modeling. Ages of the children range from young school age to late teens.
Besides working individually with your little buddy, we organize group activities like volunteer projects, a buddy garden, trips to six-flags, Wizards/Orioles games, camps, dances, parties for Halloween and the winter holidays, as well as educational talks about diverse aspects of pediatric HIV for the big buddies—including everyday growing-up struggles, talking about difficult medical conditions, managing a chronic disease, helping the older little buddies plan for their futures beyond school, community service projects and much more. Come join us for an invaluable and deeply rewarding experience. We promise lasting memories with the chance to grow together, making a genuine difference in someone's life, and learn a different side of doctoring. Download the application here.
Contact: Jessica Yang, jyang71@jhmi.edu.
POPSICLE (Pediatric Oncology Program: Students in Childrens' Life Experiences) is a new organization that allows medical students to be paired with pediatric oncology patients. Each child will be matched with a medical student interested in kids and how he/she, as a future physician, can better care for kids throughout their illnesses. In order to gain a better understanding of how cancer affects a child and the child’s family, the medical student will function as a friend and a buddy to the child. The pair of buddies can get to know each other in any way that the family and the student agree upon. Buddies can meet on the Hopkins medical campus and can attend appointments or visit the kids on the floor, or they can meet off campus. Buddies can go to activities (such as an Orioles game), work on homework, or just hang out. The medical student will serve as a friend and an advocate for the child. New medical student/patient pairings will be made at the beginning of semesters.
For more information, contact Priya Mathews (pmathew5@jhmi.edu), Sean Chen (schen81@jhmi.edu) or Lauren Clough (lclough1@jhmi.edu).
S.H.A.R.E. is an organization that recovers useful medical supplies that would otherwise be discarded in order to donate them to developing countries. The program is entirely managed by volunteer students and other Johns Hopkins community members who use their spare time to collect, sterilize, label, sort and package medical supplies. Most recovered materials come from the operating rooms in clean, usable condition but cannot be reused at Hopkins because of current regulations or surgical practices. The program is run through flexible shifts and task assignments; volunteers can contribute as much time as they want, from one shift per month to serving on the group's managing board. The room is always open and you can help anytime, an ideal opportunity if you want to help but do not want to commit to a specific time and day every week. You can make your own schedule according to your availability. S.H.A.R.E. is a fantastic way to give a little of your time to have a large impact on the health of people around the world, and we hope you'll join us.
The overall goal of the CCI annual fairs is to improve the health of an underserved community. This upcoming fair will be the fourth year that the fair will take place at a church in East Baltimore, no more than eight blocks from the Johns Hopkins Hospital. The fair takes place in a neighborhood that faces many inner city issues: substance abuse, violence, lack of green spaces and fresh food, and pollution. Community members are excited to attend the event, taking advantage of the health education, screenings and access to local resources. Each participant also leaves with a sampler bag of healthy food. All community members are invited to the fair, and this event has steadily grown over the years to not only be able to provide basic health information, but actually link organizations with community members who could benefit from their services. For more information about volunteering at CCI on Sunday, May 15, 2011 click here.
The new leadership team/ contacts for the SHARE Program for 2011-12 are as follows:
Paul Gilbert, pgilber6@jhmi.edu
Patrick Sayre, psayre@jhmi.edu
Andrew Bissonette, abisson1@jhmi.edu
Rachel Meserole, rmesero1@jhmi.edu
The following are community service activities of the Student National Medical Association:
Boys Alliance for Science Education (BASE)
Work with high school boys in mentoring roles to include SAT and Career Prep.
Contact: Ross McMillan: rossmcmillan7@gmail.com Community Adolescent Sex Education (CASE)
The Sexual Health Awareness program is designed to educate teenagers at Dunbar Middle School about their bodies and about the positive use and expression of sexuality. It is intended to increase self-esteem, improve relationships, and decrease the incidence of teen pregnancy and the spread of STDs. This program, coordinated by SNMA, includes non-SNMA members from all classes at the School of Medicine. Leaders of the CASE program coordinate activities with the administration of Dunbar Middle School and recruit SOM students to serve as instructors/mentors for the program.
Contacts: Martha Brucato, mbrucat1@jhmi.edu and Jesse Yang, jyang31@gmail.com
Health Professions Recruitment Exposure Programs (HPREP)
HPREP continues to expose inner-city high school students to science-related activities whil introducing them to careers in the health professions. Students in this program have received talks from Hopkins doctors, mentorship and guidance on college essay preparations, and SAT workshops. The HPREP coordinators organize recruitment of high school students into the program, recruitment of School of Medicine volunteers to serve as mentors, and communication with Hopkins and faculty that participate in the program.
Contacts: Ruth Tamrat, ruth.tamrat@gmail.com; Xun Zhou, xzhou31@jhmi.edu; George Yufei Tang, geot23@gmail.com; and Katie Washington, katie.odette@gmail.com
The purpose of Tri-Harder is to educate the student body about the importance of substance abuse and dependence as a major public health dilemma via informal seminars, to coordinate opportunities for students to engage in research experiences. Tri-Harder supports recovering addicts through community service, fundraising, and participation with the local Tri-Harder Triathlon Club, a group that takes people in recovery and mentors them through training and recovery.
Type For Life is a student run organization formed by the students from the Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, as well as graduate school students with the mission of increasing the number & diversity of volunteers in the National Bone Marrow Donor registry. Nearly 70% of patients with leukemia or other blood diseases depend on this registry, since a suitable marrow donor is not available within their own family. Each year TFL holds a registration drive, and each year over 600 new volunteers are added to the list; so far 20 volunteers have preliminarily matched and one has completed a transplant. Committees include Publicity, Finance, & Education... are YOU the type to save a life? Join us!
Contact: Lucy Liu, lliu33@jhmi.edu; Website: www.typeforlife.org
For more information see: www.bethematch.org
Wolfe Street Academy After School Program was started by a group of medical students in 2007 devoted to inspire the students at Wolfe Street to become not only excellent students, but also healthy and well-rounded individuals. Over the past 3 years, we have grown into a multidimensional after school program consists of a tutoring program, a gardening program, a sports clinic, and a service club serving more than 60 students. Currently we have over 30 active members and more than 100 alumni. Throughout the years, we have become an integral part of Wolfe Street Academy. The Roots and Shoots club is a new addition to Wolfe Street Academy ASP. It offers an unique opportunity for the students to be engaged in service-learning by getting students involved with their community in tangible ways and by integrating service projects with classroom learning. Our mission is to educate students about social issues that they face everyday in their community, inspire them to implement community service projects that address these needs, and empower them through the act of helping others and sharing their experience with their peers at the school and around the world. In the Roots and Shoots club, we challenge our students to use what they learned in the classroom to solve real life problems. Students not only learn about citizenship, they become actively contributing citizens and community members through the service they perform. In the Roots and Shoots Service Club, we truly believe that "Everybody can be great because everybody can serve," as Martin Luther King said, and we hope that our students will realize that no matter how old they are, they can make a difference.
Contacts:
Roots and Shoots:
YaoYao Guan, yguan5@jhmi.edu
Meghan Laird, mk.laird@yahoo.com
Elizabeth Le, ele3@jhmi.edu
Healthy Living: Neelam Shah, neelamharshadshah@gmail.com
Tutoring: Sara Fuhrhop, sara.fuhrhop@jhmi.edu
Community School Coordinator: Connie Phelps, conniephelps@ymaryland.org
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