AAMC Caring for Community Grant Program

August 2001 Grant Recipients Sponsored by Pfizer Inc.

Medical College of Georgia: Health Care for Migrant Workers
Medical students providing health care to migrant workers during the height of the Vidalia Onion harvest in Toombs County, Ga. (new project grant)

Howard University: AIDS Education Video Project (AVE)
The AVE Project is designed to facilitate HIV/AIDS education for minority adolescents. Medical students at Howard will use this video project to help encourage late elementary and early adolescents to have open and honest conversations about HIV/AIDS with their peers, family, and medical professionals. (new project grant)

University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry: Saturday School
Medical students tutoring and mentoring K-6 students who are at high risk of failing core subjects, while also providing health screening, health prevention workshops, and parenting seminars for their parents on a monthly basis. (new project grant)

Harvard: ABC/BABIES Clinic
Students providing clinical services and education for teenage mothers and their children through the combined forces of the Whittier Street Health Center's Adolescent and Baby Clinic (ABC) and the Harvard Medical School's BABIES (Boston Adolescent and Baby Initiatives to Ensure Success). (non-continuous grant)

University of Texas, Medical Branch Galveston: Frontera de Salud
Founded by UTMB students, Frontera is a service organization staffed by healthcare students that provides primary health care services, particularly services focusing on diabetes and women's health, for the working poor in the Rio Grande Valley. (supplemental grant)

University of Louisville: HOPE and LIFE Clinics
Through two student directed clinics, the Health Outreach and Pediatric Education Clinic (H.O.P.E.) and the Louisville Inner-City Family Care Experience Clinic (L.I.F.E.), Louisville students will help administer influenza vaccines to residents of shelter facilities. (supplemental grant)