Health Fair 1/15/2022 MS1 signup

This event is lead by Giselle Zapata-García, Navigator Enrollment Manager – Public Health Centers & Latinx Coordinator
Public Health – Seattle & King County

In collaboration with Public Health Seattle & King County, Latinos Promoting Good Health Committee, other community partners, and various UW health sciences schools, SHIFA organizes and participates in health fairs. SHIFA health fairs afford preclinical and clinical medical students, under the guidance and supervision of an experienced physician, the opportunity to provide health screening and health education services to uninsured, low-income, and immigrant populations in King County and the greater Puget Sound region.

Students perform basic screening services such as blood pressure, blood glucose and cholesterol testing, and BMI and review results with participants while offering health education. This event will have 4-5 stations with 1-2 students assigned to each one (we are hoping for around 8-10 volunteers). Health fair participants are given resources to establish care with a primary care provider. Fairs offer students the opportunity to serve in an interdisciplinary setting with pharmacy and dental students, and to work with individuals from diverse and underserved communities. Along with our stations for health screening, this event will have stations such as HIV/Hep C testing, mammography, a mobile dental clinic, and a station providing COVID vaccines as well.

Role assignments will be sent out shortly before the event. If there are any specific roles that you want (BMI, cholesterol screening, etc.), please contact Angela Phan (anphan97@uw.edu) to accommodate your role preference. Thank you for joining us!

Date: Saturday, 1/15/2022

Time: 11am (arrive at 10am for orientation) – 3pm

Location:
Highland Park Elementary
1012 SW Trenton St
Seattle, WA 98106