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Item PEERS: Evaluation of an Undergraduate-Led Near-Peer Community Health Mentorship Program(2023-04-13) Davuluri, Vyshnavi; Hartman, David; Trabulsi, TonyProject Engagement Encouraging Rising Students (PEERS) was an undergraduate-run mentorship program that targeted grades 9-12 in high schools and organizations across Houston. The year-long program was conceived in 2018 by undergraduates and operated as an in-person program for the 2021-2022 school year. Utilizing a project-based-learning model, the program aimed to introduce underserved high school students to community health topics. PEERS is unique among other university mentorship programs by integrating the experience with a project-based learning structure. As part of the 2021-2022 PEERS program, students participated in reflective journaling as part of an internal program evaluation that evaluated the impact of PEERS on student fulfillment and growth in three primary areas of interest including personal goals, mentorship experience, and attitudes towards community health projects. Through a manual thematic analysis approach of mentee journal entries, the PEERS leadership team hopes to assess the program’s impact and improve it in the future.Item The Socioeconomic Impacts of COVID-19(2022-04-14) Davuluri, Vyshnavi; Hemani, Zunayra F.; Thomas, RonaldHouston, the 4th largest city in the U.S., is a frontrunner in health-related inequities in this country. When observing the better health outcomes in the outer zip codes of the city compared to the worse health outcomes in inner-city zip codes, the difference can be attributed to the socioeconomic factors of the individuals in these zip codes. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the effects of these disparities were put on center stage. As of 2/27/2022, there are a total of 869,964 cases, which is about double the amount in 8/31/2021 when there were a total 447,115 cases. In fact, this increase in the number of cases makes this topic more prevalent. We plan to take into account the following socioeconomic factors: race, income, and zip code to show the impact on the COVID-19 cases in Harris County from August 2021 to February 2022. The COVID-19 pandemic has made these inequities far more evident. Socioeconomic factors, that is, an individual’s social and economic standing, have a profound effect on their health. The highest COVID-19 infection rates were found to be those of low income, African Americans and Hispanics, and those who live in inner-city zip codes. Using this information, we will be able to come up with a map that would illustrate the most at-risk zip codes for infection based on socioeconomic factors, which would help us not only for COVID-19 but also for understanding future outbreaks.